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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream QUOTES

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream QUOTES

41 " The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

42 " But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

43 " What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics". "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

44 " I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

45 " My heart is filled with love for this country. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

46 " Illinois preschoolers were temporarily saved from the debilitating effects of cereal and milk. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

47 " Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

48 " There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the brilliant, prickly, and iconoclastic late senator from New York. Apparently, Moynihan was in a heated argument with one of his colleagues over an issue, and the other senator, sensing he was on the losing side of the argument, blurted out: 'Well, you may disagree with me, Pat, I'm entitled to my own opinion." To which Moynihan frostily replied, "You are entitled to you own opinion, but you are not entitled to you own facts. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

49 " Kita menganggap keimanan sebagai sumber kenyamanan dan pemahaman, tetapi mendapati ekspresi kita akan hal itu justru menyebarkan perpecahan. Kita percaya, diri kita adalah orang-orang yang toleran meskipun berbagai ketegangan rasial, agama, dan kultural mencemari lanskap kehidupan kita. Dan alih-alih berusaha menyelesaikan atau memediasi konflik ini, politik kita justru mengipasinya, mengeksploitasinya, dan menjadikan kita terpecah-belah. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

50 " If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

51 " And yet I find myself returning again and again to my mother's simple principle—"How would that make you feel?"—as a guidepost for my politics. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

52 " That's what empathy does—it calls us all to task, the conservative and the liberal, the powerful and the powerless, the oppressed and the oppressor. We are all shaken out of our complacency. We are all forced beyond our limited vision. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

53 " Setiap strategi untuk mengurangi kemiskinan antargenerasi harus dipusatkan pada pekerjaan, bukan pada kesejahteraan--bukan hanya karena pekerjaan itu memberikan kebebasan dan pendapatan, melainkan juga karena pekerjaan itu mendatangkan kedisiplinan, struktur, harga diri, dan kesempatan untuk berkembang dalam kehidupan masyarakat. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

54 " Lincoln, and those buried at Gettysburg, remind us that we should pursue our own absolute truths only if we acknowledge that there may be a terrible price to pay. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

55 " Ketika kita terus menggunakan miliaran dolar untuk berbagai sistem senjata yang nilainya meragukan namun tidak mau menggunakan uang itu untuk melindungi pabrik-pabrik kimia yang sangat rapuh di pusat-pusat urban yang utama, menjadi semakin sulit bagi kita untuk meminta negara-negara lain menjaga pabrik-pabrik tenaga nuklir mereka. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

56 " Negara yang tidak bisa mengendalikan sumber energinya, tidak bisa mengendalikan masa depannya. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

57 " Katakanlah satu hal selama kampanye dan lakukanlah hal lain begitu Anda sudah menjabat, dan Anda adalah seorang politisi yang tipikal, politisi yang bermuka dua. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

58 " No person, in any culture, likes to be bullied. No person likes living in fear because his or her ideas are different. Nobody likes being poor or hungry, and nobody likes to live under an economic system in which the fruits of his or her labor go perpetually unrewarded. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

59 " Conservative or liberal, we are all constitutionalists. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

60 " No one is exempt from the call to find common ground. "

― Barack Obama , The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream