"If you can look back and say,..." - Quote by Barack Obama
If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever.
More by Barack Obama
“I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.”
“Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.”
“You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.”
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“People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.”
“Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.”
“Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.”
More on Economy
“Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.”
“I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.”
“There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money”