"There may be people that cannot be prosecuted for past crimes. In some cases because evidence has been tainted, but who none the less pose a threat to the security of the United States."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, speaking about indefinite detention of people without any charges,New York Times, 21 May 2009
"Look, it's an all volunteer force. Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn't compute. I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country. I wasn't asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in a speech about healthcare for Veterans, 2009
"My father served in World War II and... when he got home, he got the services that he needed."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in a speech to the nation covered by CNN. President Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya, was born on 04 April 1936.
"I don’t believe people should be able to own guns."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, speaking to economist and author John Lott Jr. as reported in The Daily Caller
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, April 2009
"You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States speaking to New York Times reporter Peter Baker, 06 March 2009
"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, quote from his book "Dreams of My Father" page 100-101
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shifts in an ugly direction."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, quote from his book "The Audacity of Hope" page 261
"We will convey our deep appreciation for the islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, 06 April 2009
"I will not sign a healthcare reform plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, 2009
"Let me be clear: The United States government has no interest in running GM. We have no intention of running GM."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, 2009
"Our stimulus plan will likely save or create three to four million jobs. 90 percent of these jobs will be created in the private sector."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, 2009
"The healthcare reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, 2009
"I'm always worried about using the word ‘victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States speaking about victory in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2009
"There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So (my parents) got together (sic) and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama"
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, 2009. Barack Obama was born in 1961; the march in Selma, AL occurred in 1965
"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe‘s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, Strasbourg, France, 03 April 2009
"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in an interview with Al Arabiya, 27 January 2009
"While the United States has done much to promote peace and prosperity in the hemisphere, we have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in the Address to the Summit of the Americas, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 17 April 2009
"I just think in a world that is as complex as it is, that it is very important for us to be able to forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in a speech to the G-20 Summit of World Leaders in London, 02 April 2009
"If you like your health care you can keep it."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States
Question: "Outside the medical criteria for prolonging the life of someone who is elderly, is there any consideration that can be given for a certain spirit, a certain joy of living, or quality of life; or is it just a medical cut off at a certain age?"
Answer: "Yeah, we're not gonna solve every difficult problem in terms of end of life care. A lot of that is going to have to be we as a culture and a society making better decisions within our own families and for ourselves. But what we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that exists in the system that is not making anybody's mom better that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not going to improve care, that at least we can let doctors know and your mom know that, you know what, maybe this isn't gonna help. Maybe you're better off not taking the surgery, but taking the painkiller."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, explaining how government health care will be addressed, CBS Evening News
"When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what's in them and nobody has read them. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen. And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act. I mean you remember that there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, Newsbusters.com
"There were people who celebrated on the South Side. I'm not one of those guys. I wish them well unless they're playing the White Sox. But I do think that there's a different quality to what used to be Comiskey Field versus Wrigley."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in an interview with Bob Costas not knowing that the proper name is "Comiskey Park", July 2009
"Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States in a worldwide speech in Cairo Egypt, June 2009
"Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to
exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does
not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and
undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to
stop."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States in a worldwide speech in Cairo Egypt, not realizing that there is no country called "Palestine", June 2009
"... more jobs will be lost, more plants will close... you will be making a sacrifice for the next generation. It's a sacrifice you may not have chose to make, but a sacrifice you are nevertheless called to make so that your children and all of our children can grow up in an America that still makes things, that still builds cars, that still strives for a better future."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States
"If we don't reform how healthcare is delivered in this country, then we are not going to be able to get a handle on that [escalating healthcare costs]."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in a speech given on 13 May 2009 setting the stage for Socialized Medicine
"If you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime - not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes. Nothing. Because the last thing we should do in this economy is raise taxes on the middle-class."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States as published on www.barackobama.com, 31 October 2008
"There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, dismissing the notion of the special relationship between the United States and Britian, Telegraph.co.uk, 07 March 2009
"This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, in the Washington Post newspaper article entitled, "The Action Americans Need", 05 February 2009
"We're going to be having conversations as this process moves forward directly with these folks on Wall Street to underscore that they have to start acting in a more responsible fashion if we are to, together, get this economy rolling again. There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses. Now is not that time."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, talking about Wall Street employees receiving bonuses, 29 January 2009
"I want to solve these problems, and I want to solve them together as Americans. And we will be ill served by some of the fear-mongering that emerges whenever we discuss this issue."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States commenting on closing Guantanamo Bay and releasing the enemy combatants and terrorists held there
"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance at success, too…I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
—Barack Hussein Obama
"I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, 2010
"When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia..."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, 16 November 2011
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, speaking to Republican leaders of Congress, 23 January 2009
"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. They fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate. And they have notAnd it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, describing small-town, working-class voters people from Pennsylvania in a speech on 06 April 2008 as reported in the Huffington Post
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, from his book "Audacity of Hope"
"...just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right..."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, 2008 Philadelphia primary debate
"And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."
-- Barack Hussein Obama address a Joint Session of Congress stating the above not realizing that the automobile was not invented in America. The U.S. Library of Congress credits German inventor Karl Benz with creating the first true automobile that ran on an internal combustion engine.
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
-- Barack Hussein Obama speaking about forming a Civilian National Security Force, 02 July 2008
"Members of the DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce shall be organized, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to deploy in support of combat operations by the military; contingencies; emergency operations; humanitarian missions; disaster relief; restoration of order; drug interdiction; and stability operations of the Department of Defense in accordance with DoDD 3000.05..."
-- Barack Hussein Obama directive defining the mission of a newly formed the Civilian National Security Force, a.k.a. the "DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce" whose mission would be as a National Police Force. The new DOD 1404.10 directive cancels the prior directive of the same designation "Emergency-Essential (E-E) DoD U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees", which was issued in 1992 under President Clinton.
"It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, Chicago Public Radio interview at WBEZ-FM, September 2001
"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, addressing Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
"I don't take a dime of their money and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, November 2007. He appointed 17 lobbyists to high government positions in the first 14 days of his administration.
"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, the third debate with Senator John McCain, 15 October 2008
"I've said only half facetiously that one of my jobs as president would be to make government cool again. And the reason is we've got to recruit a whole new generation of the best and the brightest to go into government. We're still living to some degree on the inspiration of the Kennedy era, and now those baby boomers are retiring."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, 25 January 2008
"We've got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money."
-- Barack Hussein Obama
"One of the things I think we might be able to do is make government cool again."
-- Barack Hussein Obama at a fund-raiser at Senator Jay Rockefeller's mansion, 08 July 2008
"You're absolutely right that John McCain has not... uh... talked about my Muslim faith."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, interviewed on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, being asked about whether Senator John McCain had suggested that Senator Obama is a Muslim, 07 September 2008
"Lets just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change too. Except... and... and... so I guess his whole angle is - watch out George Bush. Except for economic policy, healthcare policy... tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl Rove style politics, we're really going to shake things up in Washington (crowd cheers and applaudes). That's not change. That's, that's just calling some... the same... thing... something different. But you know you can't... you... you can put... uh... lipstick on a pig... It's still a pig."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate speaking to a crowd at a campaign event referencing Governor Sarah Palin's comment about being a Pitbull that wears lipstick, 09 September 2008
"Thank You, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! Thanks to all of you at Planned Parenthood for all the work that you are doing for women all across the country and for families all across the country-and for men who have enough sense to realize you are helping them, all across the country. I want to thank Cecile Richards (national president of Planned Parenthood) for her extraordinary leadership. I am happy to see so many good friends here today, including Steve Trombley and Pam Sutherland from my home state of Illinois. We had a number of battles down in Springfield from many years and it's wonderful to see that they are here today."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, 17 July 2007
Question from Reverend Rick Warren: "When does a baby get human rights in your view?"
Answer: "Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, 16 August 2008
"I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, From TIME magazine June 2005
"Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee
"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee, speaking in Oregon May 2008
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee speaking about a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
"There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee. Barack Obama Jr. was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965
"I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee speaking in Portland, Oregon
"I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."
-- Barack Hussein Obama during a speech on Memorial Day 2008
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee
"It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: White People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..."
-- Barack Hussein Obama, (Dem) Senator from Illinois and 2008 Presidential nominee
"The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They're operated as holding pens - miniature jails, really. It's only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated."
-- Barack Hussein Obama
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