Quotes of: Barack-obama Keyword

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

Clarence Thomas

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

Clarence Thomas

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Imran Khan

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

Joe Biden

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.

Joseph P. Bradley

I've never sought elected office since I was a senior class president in high school.

Jeffrey Chiesa

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

Johnnie Cochran

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

Deval Patrick

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

Dick Thornburgh

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

Elliott Abrams

Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

Elliott Abrams

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

Elliott Abrams

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Elliott Abrams

Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.

Elliott Abrams

In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.

Elliott Abrams

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Elizabeth Edwards

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

Elizabeth Edwards

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

Emily Giffin

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.

Emily Giffin

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

Eddie Huang

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.

Eric Holder