Quote

My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.

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
Things
Talking
Bound
Moving
Sister
Strong
Teachers
Order
Bounds
Kids
Forward
Certain
Move
Going
Teacher
Way
Support
Behalf

More quotes by Barack Obama

Image
It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided.
Barack Obama
Image
Why hang out with celebrities when I can hang out with the people who made me one?
Barack Obama
Image
People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that that has produced populist movements both from the left and from the right in many countries in Europe.
Barack Obama
Image
I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.
Barack Obama
Image
If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.
Barack Obama
Image
My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.
Barack Obama
Image
Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple.
Barack Obama
Image
Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.
Barack Obama
Image
It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.
Barack Obama
Image
What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.
Barack Obama
Image
There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.
Barack Obama
Image
Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.
Barack Obama
Image
If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.
Barack Obama
Image
I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.
Barack Obama
Image
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.
Barack Obama
Image
They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
Barack Obama
Image
... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.
Barack Obama
Image
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Barack Obama
Image
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
Barack Obama
Image
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Barack Obama