Barack Obama Quotes

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Barack Obama

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ChristianChoice

When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love with it.

Jenny Packham

LoveThinkDesignSomeoneFallWant

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

John Maynard Keynes

FutureMoneyPresentBeingBetween

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeChallengeQualityGrowKnow

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Sophocles

TimeJusticeHarmEvenBrings

I don't believe in uselessly fighting for nothing.

Shilpa Shinde

BelieveFightingNothing

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Tom Harkin

RichTaxVeteransDebtPresidentUs

When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

Mats Sundin

YouFeelingGoYoungRaceWatch

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

Mary Harris Jones

WorkChildrenDayBirdsNightSong

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Lord Salisbury

MyselfThingsDisappearRankWhose

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Chris Parnell

FunnyPeopleThinkKnowClassClown

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Colin Farrell

FutureThinkPresentDareRiskMiss

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

Bonnie Blair

GoodMyselfMeGoldWinSay

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