"I reserve the right, as president of..." - Quote by Barack Obama
I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.
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“I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.”
“Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.”
“No two countries are identical, and obviously, there's a difference between a referendum on a very complex relationship between Great Britain and the rest of Europe, and a presidential election in the United States.”
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“Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.”
“I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.”
“A disciplined person is the one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.”
More on National Security
“We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.”
“Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.”
“So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.”