Quotes Flashcards
(22 cards)
Obama on Trump’s election
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“So that happened”
Obama after 2014 Midterms
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“My Presidency is entering the fourth quarter; interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter”
High school kid, meeting with Mahmoud Abbas
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“Mr President, we are treated the same way the black people were treated in your country. Funded by your government”
Obama on the second debate against Mitt Romney
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“This isn’t really a debate at all, it’s just a performance”
Obama on presidency
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“Every presidency is a story with one person at the center of it”
Obama, calling Gaddafi to go
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“When a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now”
Biden on Mubarak’s resignation
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“All foreign policy is an extension of personal relastionships”
Nobel Peace Prize speech
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“The world as it is”
Obama on foreign policy
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“Day in and day out, it’s a trillion-dollar annual enterprise that plows forward like an ocean liner, shaping the lives of people in its wake whether they know it or not”
Obama on being president
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“Being President isn’t as glamorous as they make it sound.”
Obama on being black
The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes
“I’m black enough when I try to get a back.”
DNC, 2012
Joe Biden
“Osama Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”
Address to the Nation on US Counterterrorism Strategy, December 2015
“We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us. Our success won’t depend on tough talk abandoning our values or giving into fear. That’s what group like ISIL are hoping for. Instead, we will prevail by being strong and qmart, resilient and relentless, and by drawing upon every aspect of American power.”
Statement in Ferguson, 2015
“So those should be the lessons that we draw from these tragic events. We need to recognize that this is not just an issue for Ferguson, this is an issue for America.”
Mario Cuomo
Former New York Governor
“You campaign in poetry and govern in prose.é
Dreier
“Organizing in the Obama Era”,
The John Marshall Law Review
“compared with other political operations, Obama’s campaign has embodied many characteristics of a social movement : a redenptive calling for a better society, coupling individual and social transformation. This is due not only to Obama’s rhetorical style but also to his campaign’s enlistment of hundreds of thousands of seasoned workers from unions, community groups, churches, peace and environmental groups. They, in turn, have mobilized thousands of volunteers, many of them neophytes in electoral politics, into tightly knit, highly motivated and efficient terms.”
We Can’t Wait Campaign
“I will not take no for an answer. When Congress refuses to act and - as a result - hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation, as president, to do what I can without them.”
John Kerry on climate change
Climate change is “not just a threat to the future of our planet, but a growing and immediate threat to our national security.”
Kerry on Gitmo
“no single action would do more to reaffirm our commitment to international human rights norms and remove a recruiting tool for terrorists than closing” the site.
Kerry on refugees
The USA had a “profound responsibility to help refugees.”
Obama in Las Vegas: debate on health care
“Do we have the political will and the sense of urgency to actually get it done? I want to be held accountable for getting it done. I will judge my first term as president based on the fact of whether we have delivered the kind of health care that every American deserves and that our system can afford.”
Obama, State Department address, May 2011
Libya
“The message [to Gaddafi and others] would have been clear: Keep power by killing as many people as it takes.”
