Sort by:PopularityA - Z
Quotes from the news wire:
Whether we like country or rap or rock, music helps us share ourselves, our dignity and sorrows, our hopes and joys, it allows us to hear one another, to invite each other in.
Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Entertainment
From the Motown records I wore out on the Southside to the 'Who Run the World' songs that fueled me through this last decade, music has always helped me tell my story.
Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Entertainment
Once we start having an honest discussion on slavery, then we can move forward, we've never really had an honest discussion about the foundation of this country. I know people might not like this, but this is the truth.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Entertainment
To a large degree, we are seeing a competition between two stories, there’s the story that is based largely on fear, and there is a story based largely in hope. There’s the story that says we’re in it together, and there’s the story that says there’s an us and a them.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Latest Headlines
I would caution us from extrapolating too much from a bunch of special elections and starting to think that, ‘OK, this will take care of itself.’ Because it won’t, fear is powerful.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Latest Headlines
Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early, maybe we pushed too far. ... Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Latest Headlines
I picked you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability. I want you to know that nothing has happened in the last year to change my view.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Latest Headlines
Michelle and I want this center to be more than just a building, we want to create an economic engine for the South Side of Chicago, a cultural attraction that showcases the South Side to the rest of the world.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Latest Headlines
I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Latest Headlines
One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of facts.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Entertainment
It is my fervent hope and the hope of millions ... such courage is still possible, that today's members of Congress regardless of party are willing to look at the facts and speak the truth, even when it contradicts party positions.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Latest Headlines
I’m not planning to get involved in many elections now that I don’t have to run for office again, but the French election is very important to the future of France and the values that we care so much about.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Latest Headlines
I have instructed the Joint Chiefs, and up and down the chain of command, that they have a responsibility to de-stigmatize mental health issues and issues of PTSD, and help to explain to everybody in all of the units under their command that there's nothing weak about asking for help.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Health News
We are part of a global economy. We are not reversing that. It can't be reversed because it is driven by technology ... and the fact that the demand for products inside of our country means we've got to get some things from other places, the notion that we're going to pull that up root and branch is unrealistic.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Healthcare
I think I've got the better argument, hopefully after the election is over and the dust settles, there will be more attention to the actual facts behind the deal. It won't just be a political symbol.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Healthcare
The notion that we're going to pull that up root and branch is unrealistic.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Healthcare
What will never change (is) the unwavering commitment of the United States to the security and defence of Europe, of our transatlantic relationship and the commitment to our common defence.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Industrials
That changes you. You're not the same after that, we've got kids all across this country who never see a park. We've got to change that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Environment
You can't capture this on an iPad or a flat screen or even an oil painting. You've got to come here and breathe it in yourself.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Environment
We've got kids all across this country who never see a park. We've got to change that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Environment
That's not the legacy I think any of us want to leave.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Environment
I wasn't always as responsible as I am today. In many ways I was lucky, because for whatever reason addiction didn't get it's claws on me ... except cigarettes.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Health News
This is yet another reminder that the world must unite. We must be together regardless of nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Most Read Articles
This is not a matter of providing concessions, this is a matter of us engaging directly with the Cuban people.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Company News
This issue of softwood lumber will get resolved in some fashion ... undoubtedly to the dissatisfaction of all parties concerned, each side will want 100 percent, and we'll find a way for each side to get 60 percent or so of what they need, and people will complain and grumble, but it will be fine.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Company News
Each side will want 100 percent, and we'll find a way for each side to get 60 percent or so of what they need, and people will complain and grumble, but it will be fine.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Company News
When so many of our products, like autos, are built on both sides of the border in an integrated supply chain, this co-production makes us more competitive in the global economy as a whole. And we want to keep it that way.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Company News
We're going to keep on talking about it and seeing if there's a way forward.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Industrials
The auto industry here in the United States has figured out that we can make more fuel-efficient cars that reduce the carbon pollution that is causing climate change, and make a profit - and put more people to work.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Company News
If I were a parent up there, I would be beside myself that my kid's health could be at risk.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Company News
A few months ago, I directed my team at the White House to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence, and on Monday, I'll meet with our attorney general, Loretta Lynch, to discuss our options.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Most Read Articles
We know that we can't stop every act of violence, but what if we tried to stop even one? What if Congress did something – anything – to protect our kids from gun violence?
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Most Read Articles
We continue to have differences with the Cuban government, but we raise those issues directly, and we will always stand for human rights and the universal values that we support around the globe.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Company News
This points to an ongoing problem with the Russian operations in the sense that they are operating very close to a Turkish border and they are going after moderate opposition that are supported by not only Turkey but a wide range of countries.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Industrials
Turkey, like every country, has the right to defend its territory and its airspace, it's very important right now for us to make sure that both the Russians and the Turks are talking to each other to find out exactly what happened and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Industrials
It's very important right now for us to make sure that both the Russians and the Turks are talking to each other to find out exactly what happened and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Industrials
My top priority is going to be to ensure that this does not escalate, hopefully this is a moment in which all parties can step back and make a determination of how their interests are best served.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Industrials
It's very important right now for us to make sure that both the Russians and the Turks are talking to each other to find out exactly what happened and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation, turkey, like every country, has the right to defend its territory and its airspace.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Industrials
Turkey, like every country, has the right to defend its territory and its airspace.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Industrials
With allies and partners, the United States will be relentless to those who target our citizens, we will continue to root out terrorist networks. We will not allow these killers to have a safe haven.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Most Read Articles
Traditionally the G20 has been a forum primarily to discuss economic issues facing the globe ... (but) the sky has been darkened by the horrific attacks that took place in Paris.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Most Read Articles
The TPP means that America will write the rules of the road in the 21st century, if we don't pass this agreement - if America doesn’t write those rules - then countries like China will.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Most Read Articles
We've got to make sure that it's the anomaly and not the rule going forward.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Company News
The United States is prepared to work with any nation, including Russia and Iran, to resolve the conflict, but we must recognize that there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a return to the prewar status quo.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
It's spectacular, we want to make sure that our own grandkids can see this.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Environment
This is as good a signpost of what we're dealing with on climate change as just about anything.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Environment
We want to make sure that our own grandkids can see this.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Environment
It's been a volatile few weeks around the world. There's been a lot of reports in the news, and stock markets swinging, and worries about China and about Europe, but the United States of America, for all the challenges we still have, continues to have the best cards. We just have to play them right.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
But the United States of America, for all the challenges we still have, continues to have the best cards. We just have to play them right.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
I come off a couple weeks of family time. I feel refreshed, renewed, recharged, a little feisty, i'm ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Environment
We're the first generation to feel the impact of climate change. We're the last generation that can do something about it, we only get one home. We only get one planet. There's no plan B.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Environment
You're always going to fall short, because if you're hitting your marks, that means you didn't set them high enough, we don't score a touchdown every time, but we move the ball forward.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
You hit singles, you hit doubles; every once in a while we may be able to hit a home run.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
I'm sure the Republicans are enjoying Mr. Trump's current dominance as the front-runner.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
I'll say this: if you give a woman, or a man for that matter, without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Entertainment
The truth is that parents, it turns out, don't always have the most influence, what really helps is when their friends at school are all like, 'You're having chips? I'm sorry, I'm having the Barack-amole,'.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Health News
That's OK, when I'm at state dinners, I'm always spilling things.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Health News
What really helps is when their friends at school are all like, 'You're having chips? I'm sorry, I'm having the Barack-amole,'.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Health News
Progress on this journey often comes in small increments, sometimes two steps forward, one step back, and then sometimes, there are days like this when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Healthcare
Part of that fearlessness is because you've screwed up enough times that it's all happened. I've been through this, I've screwed up. I've been in the barrel tumbling down Niagara Falls and I emerged and I lived That's such a liberating feeling.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Healthcare
You don't see murder on this kind of scale, with this kind of frequency, in any other advanced nation on Earth.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
The apparent motivations of the shooter remind us that racism remains a blight that we have to combat together.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Industrials
We should be able to talk about this issue as citizens without demonizing all gun owners who are overwhelmingly law abiding, but also without suggesting that any debate about this involves a wild-eyed plot to take everybody's guns away.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Industrials
I refuse to act as if this is the new normal, or to pretend that it's simply sufficient to grieve, and that any mention of doing something to stop it is somehow politicizing the problem.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Industrials
At a dinner table everyone slows down; you are actually tasting it, and you probably eat less because you're not shoveling it down, well, the president shovels sometimes.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Health News
If you cook, you take a lot of control over what you eat, you can control the portions ... and it's a lot of fun.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Health News
This problem is not going to go away. It is going to accelerate. And that means that we have to be as nimble, as aggressive and as well-resourced as those who are trying to break into these systems.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Technology
Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don’t think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It’s convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can’t even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Environment
It's this intellectual arrogance that now you can’t even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Environment
And we're seeing this again and again. but when you start getting to the point where you are actively communicating that the United States government and our secretary of state is somehow spinning presentations in a negotiation with a foreign power, particularly one you say is your enemy, that's a problem.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
But when you start getting to the point where you are actively communicating that the United States government and our secretary of state is somehow spinning presentations in a negotiation with a foreign power, particularly one you say is your enemy, that's a problem.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
That's not how we're supposed to run foreign policy regardless of who's president or secretary of state.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
We don't want to be imprisoned by the past, when something doesn't work for 50 years, you don't just keep on doing it. You try something new.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
Everybody was saying I was Leonard Nimoy, so I figured I should check it out.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Entertainment
It's not OK and it has to stop, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and getting us talking and thinking about what matters.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Entertainment
As a leader, he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions, one of those convictions was his steadfast and passionate belief in the importance of the U.S.-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
I am lifting the moratorium on detainee transfers to Yemen so we can review them on a case-by-case basis.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
In two months, to prepare us for those missions, Scott Kelly will begin a year-long stay in space. Good luck, Captain - and make sure to Instagram it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
Imagine if we broke out of these tired old patterns, imagine if we did something different.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
I want the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome to lead a new era of medicine - one that delivers the right treatment at the right time, tonight, I'm launching a new precision medicine initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes - and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Healthcare
Let's set our sights higher than a single oil pipeline.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
We've got to stay ahead of those who would do us harm. The problem is that government and the private sector are still not always working as closely together as we should.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
Foreign governments, criminals and hackers probe America's computer networks every single day. We saw that again in the attack on Sony.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
I'm hopeful that with a spirit of cooperation and putting America first, we can be in a position where at the end of this year, we can look back and say we're that much better off than we were when we started the year.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
I think we agreed that this is an area where we can work hard together, get some legislation done and make sure that we are much more effective in protecting the American people from these kinds of cyberattacks.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
It's one of those new challenges in our modern society that crosses the old divides - transcends politics, transcends ideology.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
Betting on you was the right thing to do, that bet has paid off for America.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
And I'd say I'm the last person to say it couldn't happen. I've already shown that white voters are open to voting for black candidates, so it made sense to me, though I was pleased, I'm not that surprised that he was able to pull it off. But I am thankful to God to live to see this happen.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
Right now, he's presiding over the collapse of his currency, a major financial crisis and a huge economic contraction, that doesn't sound like somebody who has rolled me or the United States of America.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
Going into the fourth quarter, you usually get a time-out, i am now looking forward to a quiet time-out, Christmas with my family.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
I wish they (Sony) would have spoken to me first, i would have told them, 'Do not get into a pattern in which you're intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.'.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
They caused a lot of damage. And we will respond.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
Signing this legislation does not signal a change in the administration's sanctions policy, which we have carefully calibrated in accordance with developments on the ground and coordinated with our allies and partners.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Latest Headlines
They're not known as wild-eyed liberal states, but it just goes to show you that this is an issue that's bigger than politics.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
You've been taking a lot of shots at my job, I've decided I'm going to go ahead and take a shot at yours, as you know I, Stephen Colbert, have never cared for our president.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
The guy is so arrogant, I bet he talks about himself in the third person.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
We are not going to let up until we see a strengthening of trust and strengthening of accountability that exists between our communities and our law enforcement.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
Every hotspot is an ember that if not contained can become a new fire, so we cannot let down our guard even for a minute, and we can't just fight this epidemic, we have to extinguish it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Health News
I want to thank every American who participated in this election, whether you voted for the very first time, or waited in line for a very long time, by the way, we have to fix that.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Election 2012
I told John Boehner, 'I'll wash your car, walk your dog, whatever you need to do, just call the bill, and he didn't do it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
This is a country that allows everybody ... to protest actions that they think are unjust, But using any event as an excuse for violence is contrary to rule of law, contrary to who we are.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
Amnesty is the immigration system we have today, millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
Congress certainly shouldn't shut down our government again just because we disagree on this.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
I've seen the heartbreak and anxiety of children whose mothers might be taken away from them just because they didn't have the right papers.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
I will make it easier and faster for high-skilled immigrants, graduates and entrepreneurs to stay and contribute to our economy, as so many business leaders have proposed.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Company News
I want to thank every American who participated in this election, whether you voted for the very first time, or waited in line for a very long time, By the way, we have to fix that.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Election 2012
We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Election 2012
We have serious differences over Russia’s policy in Ukraine. As President Barack Obama's planned said at the G20 summit in Brisbane, we hope Russia will choose' a different path', to resolve the issue of Ukraine in a way that respects Ukraine’s sovereignty and is consistent with international law.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
So what I'm going to be laying out is the things that I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system work better even as I continue to work with Congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan, comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Most Read Articles
Quote of the Day Today's Quote | Archive
Would you like us to send you a FREE inspiring quote delivered to your inbox daily?
Citation
Use the citation below to add this author page to your bibliography:
"Barack Obama Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2020. Web. 22 Oct. 2020. <https://www.quotes.net/authors/Barack+Obama+Quotes>.
Powered by CITE.ME
