President Barack Obama Quotes

“You want people who are self-starters.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“We weren't exposed to the things we didn't have in the same way that kids these days are. There was not that window into the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Kids weren't monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing, or where Kanye West was going on vacation, and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“As he entered a bare room in the back of Amazon's cavernous Tennessee warehouse, I saw a President who seemed remarkably human, like any other American who'd managed to make something of himself thanks to ambition, luck, and the beneficence of a government that made opportunities real.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“I would have been using as a teacher. Trying to communicate ideas. Getting other folks to think critically about how do we advance the cause of a more just and more prosperous America. Organizing agencies and institutions”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“No debe asegurar igualdad de resultados, sino que el campo de juego es igual para todo el mundo.”
― David Blum, El Presidente Barack Obama: Entrevista Kindle Singles

“Mira, he sabido aprovechar las ventajas del capitalismo. Se me da bien ganar dinero. Pero quiero devolver una gran parte de él y no me importa pagar unos impuestos un poco más altos que alguien que tiene dificultades para llegar a fin de mes, porque sé que mi éxito depende de un sistema, una cultura y una infraestructura que me han permitido triunfar”. Así es como yo me eduqué. Así es como se educó Michelle. Creo que es lo mismo que pensaban la mayoría de nuestros padres.”
― David Blum, El Presidente Barack Obama: Entrevista Kindle Singles

“What we have to recognize is that those old times aren't coming back. We're not going to suddenly eliminate globalization. We're not going to eliminate technology.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“opportunity. Not equality of results, but making sure the playing field was level for”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Creating good jobs, rebuilding our manufacturing base, making sure that we have the best education system possible, and that it's affordable for the ordinary family. Those are the kinds of initiatives where government can make a difference and would create in the generation that's coming up the kind of hope and optimism that characterized their parents and grandparents.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Audacity of Hope”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“The question is: How do we broaden our lens so that what's true in the security arena is true when it comes to our economy, is true when it comes to education, is true when it comes to the environment? There are things we can do better together.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“You want people who are self-starters. You want entrepreneurship. You want people to pull their weight and don't depend on government to somehow spoon-feed them success. But you also want enough of a sense of shared destiny, enough common commitments that we can keep our air and water clean. That we can maintain our technological edge. That we can ensure the next generation is well educated. It's part of the reason why the one institution that has been more successful in our society than just about any other has been our military—because that's one area where everybody understands we're one nation, and we all have to make sacrifices.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“there's always been a tension in this country between the desire for liberty and self-reliance and individualism, and the desire for community and neighborliness and a sense of common purpose.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“The good news is that technology does potentially empower ordinary people in ways we've never seen before.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“There's a reduced importance of mediating institutions, like unions and community organizations that used to be the building blocks of political power.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“TV has come to dominate who wins and who loses.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“skills that I would have been using as a teacher. Trying to communicate ideas.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“One of the advantages we have is that we still have family members who are not only middle class, but we've got some family members who are poor. Malia and Sasha have cousins who know what it's like to struggle and know what it's like to have to scrape by. They know that those kids are just as worthy as they are, they just haven't had as much luck.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“there also has been a shift in culture. We weren't exposed to the things we didn't have in the same way that kids these days are.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“American dream involved some pretty basic stuff. A home you could call your own. A good job where you felt some security. A good education, and the ability to get a higher education if you wanted to pursue it. Health care you could count on. Retirement that you could count on. Those cornerstones of what it meant to be middle class were pretty universally held. People felt that if they worked hard they could get there. It was achievable.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“hard times don't always create good politics.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“cornerstone of his latest economic push.”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“デイヴィッド：私の理解が正しければ、現代の共和党は富を成功に付いてまわるものだと見なし”
― David Blum, バラク・オバマ大統領　Kindleシングル・インタビュー

“This is a relatively recent phenomenon, this notion that government inevitably leads to dependency. Look, there were periods of time in our history when programs probably weren't well-designed”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview

“anybody that frontier spirit and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. But he also recognized that government investments in things like railroads and ports and canals and land-grant colleges and research through the National Science Foundation—that all these things would provide a platform for motivated individuals to succeed. That was true through Eisenhower. That was true under Richard Nixon. Even Ronald Reagan understood that government has an important role to play in providing opportunity. Not equality of results, but making sure”
― David Blum, President Barack Obama: The Kindle Singles Interview