Quote

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

Barack Obama

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
Community Organizer
Jurist
Lawyer
Podcaster
Political Writer
Politician
Statesperson
Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital
Barack Hussein Obama II
Barack Obama II
Barack Hussein Obama
Obama
Barak Obama
Barry Obama
President Obama
President Barack Obama
BHO
Barack
Barack H. Obama
Truth
Presses
Press
Speech
Lies
Lying
Freedom
Misinformation
Free
Uphold
Ends
Match

More quotes by Barack Obama

Image
Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.
Barack Obama
Image
There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.
Barack Obama
Image
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.
Barack Obama
Image
I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.
Barack Obama
Image
As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.
Barack Obama
Image
So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.
Barack Obama
Image
These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.
Barack Obama
Image
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.
Barack Obama
Image
The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
Barack Obama
Image
Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.
Barack Obama
Image
One thing I think we have to do is to make sure that the undocumented workers who are living in America today, that they have to take responsibility. They've got to register, pay a fine, pay their back taxes, learn English and then get on a pathway in which they could have the prospect of being here legally.
Barack Obama
Image
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
Barack Obama
Image
We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.
Barack Obama
Image
I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
Barack Obama
Image
As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.
Barack Obama
Image
There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.
Barack Obama
Image
I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
Barack Obama
Image
I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.
Barack Obama
Image
Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad.
Barack Obama
Image
I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe.
Barack Obama