Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That's going to be our most important strategy. And I think we can successfully do that. Barack Obama More Quotes by Barack Obama More Quotes From Barack Obama Right before the election, they try to scare the heck out of you, and then the election comes, and suddenly the problem is magically gone. Everything's great. ' I'm sorry, what did we say ?'. Barack Obama top-news They said government bureaucrats are going to kill your granny. Remember ? ' Death panels.' Then right after the election, what death panels ? Didn't exist. Barack Obama top-news Someone from Barack's administration might have said that the optics there were bad, that what the public saw didn't reflect the President's reality or ideals, but in this case, maybe it did, realizing it, I made my own optic adjustment. I stopped even trying to smile. Barack Obama top-news Nah, nah, nah, it's not true. They haven't done nothing. They've done something, they promised they were going to take on corruption in Washington. Instead, they've racked up enough indictments to field a football team. Barack Obama top-news Nobody in President Donald Trump administration got indicted, president Donald Trump administration, by the way, is not that high President Donald Trump administration. Barack Obama top-news All right, so now they've had two years of total control in Washington. Barack Obama top-news When words don't mean anything, when truth doesn't matter, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can't work. Barack Obama politics My main message is to the parents of Trayvon. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon, all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves. 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Barack Obama politics If what you are doing requires no sacrifice at all, then you can do more, if you are one of these folks who is watching cable news at your cocktail parties with your friends and you are saying' civilization is collapsing' and you are nervous and worried, but that is not where you are putting all your time, energy and money, then either you don't actually think civilization is collapsing... or you are not pushing yourself hard enough and I would push harder. Barack Obama top-news Chicago is better and stronger for his leadership, and I was a better President for his wise counsel at a particularly perilous time for our country. Barack Obama us-news I guess that was John McCain finally giving us a little straight talk and owning up to the fact that he and George Bush actually have a whole lot in common, here's the thing, we know what the Bush-McCain philosophy looks like. 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Barack Obama top-news Nelson Mandela Lecture is Nelson Mandela Lecture that racial discrimination still exists in both the United States and South Africa. Barack Obama politics Today, technology lets the party in power precision-draw the map in a way that packs the other party's supporters into as few congressional districts as possible. It's why your district might be shaped like a corkscrew. But it's also how a party gains more seats while winning fewer votes, which isn't fair. Barack Obama politics Of course, that's good for special interests who want to protect tax breaks for the most powerful, or the gun lobby, or environmental polluters -- but it's not good for our children. And regardless of our party affiliations, it's not good for our democracy. Barack Obama politics
