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„Unsere Geschichten können unterschiedlich sein, aber unser Ziel ist gemeinsam.“

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„Wir sind der Wandel, auf den wir gewartet haben.“

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nach der Aufholjagd des Super Tuesdays am 5. Februar 2008 - BarackObama.com http://www.barackobama.com/
Original engl.: "We are the change we have been waiting for."

„Es gibt zur Partnerschaft und Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Nationen keine Alternative.“

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Rede an der Berliner Siegessäule am 24. Juli 2008, sueddeutsche.de http://www.sueddeutsche.de/deutschland/artikel/359/187763/
"Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity." - http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/24/obama.words/

„Sagt mir nicht, Wandel sei unmöglich.“

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Spiegel Online

„Wahlen allein machen noch keine Demokratie.“

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Rede an der Universität Kairo am 4. Juni 2009, Handelsblatt 4. Juni 2009 http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/barack-obama-obamas-grosses-versprechen-seite-3/3191220-3.html
Original engl.: "elections alone do not make true democracy." - s:el:A New Beginning.
Dieser Gedanke war allerdings weder neu, noch war Obama sein Urheber; vielmehr war er schon seit Jahrzehnten Gemeingut. So hatte man im SPIEGEL vom 19. März 1984 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13509577.html gelesen: "Aber Wahlen allein schaffen doch noch keine Demokratie", in einem Beitrag des Labourabgeordneten Bryan Gold zu der Debatte des britischen Unterhauses vom 25. März 1977 https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1977-03-25a.1698.0: "elections alone do not guarantee democracy [...] direct elections alone cannot be equated with democracy", und in einer britischen Publikation Our Times (vol. 4, p. 164) unter dem Datum February 13-17, 1939 als Überschrift: " Elections Alone Do Not Make Democracies https://books.google.de/books?id=nPscAQAAMAAJ&q=democracies"".

„Eine gewaltlose Bewegung hätte Hitlers Armeen nicht aufhalten können. Verhandlungen können die Anführer der Al Kaida nicht überzeugen, ihre Waffen niederzulegen. Es ist kein Aufruf zum Zynismus, wenn man sagt, dass Gewalt manchmal notwendig sein kann – es ist eine Anerkennung der Geschichte, der Unvollkommenheit des Menschen und der Grenzen der Vernunft.“

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Rede bei der Entgegennahme des Friedensnobelpreises http://blogs.usembassy.gov/amerikadienst/2009/12/10/obama-bei-seiner-auszeichnung-mit-dem-friedensnobelpreis/ am 10. Dezember 2009
"Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism – it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason." - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/obama-lecture_en.html

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„Die meisten von euch wissen, dass ich von Beginn an gegen diesen Krieg war. Ich dachte, dass er ein tragischer Fehler war.“

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über den Irakkrieg in der Ankündigung, US-Präsident werden zu wollen, am 10. Februar 2007, BarackObama.com http://www.barackobama.com/2007/02/10/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_11.php
Original engl.: "Most of you know I opposed this war from the start. I thought it was a tragic mistake."

Über Krieg , Wissen

„Das Geniale unserer Staatsgründer liegt darin, dass sie ein Regierungssystem entworfen haben, das verändert werden kann.“

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in der Rede zur Ankündigung, US-Präsident werden zu wollen, am 10. Februar 2007, BarackObama.com http://www.barackobama.com/2007/02/10/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_11.php
Original engl.: "The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed."

„Jawohl, wir können!“

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Wahlslogan von Barack Obama

„In den deutschsprachigen Medien so gut wie immer nur im Original zitierter Wahlslogan 2008“

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"Yes, we can!"

„Es gibt Leute, die unsere Spaltung vorbereiten, die Meinungsmacher und Werbegurus die eine Politik des "erlaubt ist, was gefällt" vertreten. Diesen sage ich nun heute Abend, es gibt nicht ein liberales Amerika und ein konservatives Amerika, sondern die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.“

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als Hauptredner auf der Democratic National Convention in Boston am 27. Juli 2004, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19751-2004Jul27.html
Original engl.: "There are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America."

„Wir sind eine Nation, wir sind ein Volk, und unsere Zeit für Veränderungen ist gekommen.“

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In der Siegesrede der Vorwahlen von Iowa, am 3. Januar 2008, BarackObama.com http://www.barackobama.com/2008/01/03/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_39.php
Original engl.: "We are one nation; we are one people; and our time for change has come."

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“And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.”

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2016, Presidential transition of Donald Trump (November 2016)

“Five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” In 1963, almost 200 years after those words were set to paper, a full century after a great war was fought and emancipation proclaimed, that promise -- those truths -- remained unmet. And so they came by the thousands from every corner of our country, men and women, young and old, blacks who longed for freedom and whites who could no longer accept freedom for themselves while witnessing the subjugation of others. And so they came by the thousands from every corner of our country, men and women, young and old, blacks who longed for freedom and whites who could no longer accept freedom for themselves while witnessing the subjugation of others.”

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2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent. History has shown us time and again, however, that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the Legislative branch. It is always preferable to have the informed consent of Congress prior to any military action. As for the specific question about bombing suspected nuclear sites, I recently introduced S. J. Res.23, which states in part that “any offensive military action taken by the United States against Iran must be explicitly authorized by Congress.””

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In response to a question "In what circumstances would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress?"
Boston Globe questionnaire on Executive Power, December 20, 2007. http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/2007_Exec_Power_Barack_Obama.htm
2007

“I realize we are not going to resolve all of our political debates over the best ways to reduce inequality and increase upward mobility this year, or next year, or in the next five years. But it is important that we have a serious debate about these issues. For the longer that current trends are allowed to continue, the more it will feed the cynicism and fear that many Americans are feeling right now -- that they’ll never be able to repay the debt they took on to go to college, they’ll never be able to save enough to retire, they’ll never see their own children land a good job that supports a family.”

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2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)

“So the future of this region, your region, is not going to be determined by dictators or by armies, it's going to be determined by entrepreneurs and inventors and dreamers and people who are doing things in the community. And you're going to be the leaders who make that happen. Your generation has greater potential to shape society than any generation that's come before because you have the power to get knowledge from everywhere, and you have more sophistication and experiences than your parents or your grandparents. And you have now the chance to share knowledge and experiences with other young people all across this region and around the world. And that wasn't true 20 years ago or 50 years ago.”

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2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall Speech (November 2014)

“If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.”

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2015, Bloody Sunday Speech (March 2015)

“Let's not play games. What I was suggesting — you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.”

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"Obama's verbal slip fuels his critics" http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/?page=all by Christina Bellantoni, The Washington Times (7 September 2008)
2008

“Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.”

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President Barack Obama on Twitter at September 16, 2015 https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656
2015

“Dreams from My Father.”

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1995

“But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.”

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2013, Cape Town University Address (June 2013)

“But, ultimately, the most powerful antidote to the old ways of doing things is this new generation of African youth. History shows that the nations that do best are the ones that invest in the education of their people. You see, in this information age, jobs can flow anywhere, and they typically will flow to where workers are literate and highly skilled and online.”

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2015, Remarks to the People of Africa (July 2015)

“But for those folks who have lost their job right now because a plant went down the Mexico, that isn't going to make you feel better. And so what we have to do is to make sure that folks are trained for the jobs that are coming in now because some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back, and when somebody says, like the person you just mentioned who I'm not going to advertise for, that he's going to bring all these jobs back, well how exactly are you going to do that? What are you going to do? There's — there's no answer to it. He just says, "Well, I'm going to negotiate a better deal." Well, how — what — how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually, the answer is he doesn't have an answer.”

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Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/questions-for-president-obama-a-town-hall-special/ with Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour (1 June 2016)
2016

“For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.”

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2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)

“I am not a dictator, I am the president. I know this has been some of the conventional wisdom floating around Washington, that somehow even though most people agree that I’m being reasonable, that most people agree I’m presenting a fair deal, the fact that they don’t take it means that I should somehow, you know, do a Jedi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do what’s right.”

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Press conference March 1st http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/01/173240651/decrying-dumb-arbitrary-cuts-obama-says-we-will-get-through-this
2013

“What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.”

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2015, Bloody Sunday Speech (March 2015)

“Our nuclear power plants have undergone exhaustive study, and have been declared safe for any number of extreme contingencies. But when we see a crisis like the one in Japan, we have a responsibility to learn from this event, and to draw from those lessons to ensure the safety and security of our people.
That’s why I’ve asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do a comprehensive review of the safety of our domestic nuclear plants in light of the natural disaster that unfolded in Japan.”

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2011, Address on the natural and nuclear energy disasters in Japan (March 2011)

“And yet, in our rush to respond to a very real and novel set of threats, the risk of government overreach -- the possibility that we lose some of our core liberties in pursuit of security -- also became more pronounced. […] intelligence agencies cannot function without secrecy, which makes their work less subject to public debate. Yet there is an inevitable bias not only within the intelligence community, but among all of us who are responsible for national security, to collect more information about the world, not less. So in the absence of institutional requirements for regular debate -- and oversight that is public, as well as private or classified -- the danger of government overreach becomes more acute. And this is particularly true when surveillance technology and our reliance on digital information is evolving much faster than our laws.”

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2014, Review of Signals Intelligence Speech (June 2014)

“So I’m unequivocal on this. If somebody is a law-abiding citizen who is going about their business, and working in a job, an obeying the traffic signs and doing all the other things that good citizens are supposed to do, and not harming anybody -- the idea that they are going to be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong. Full stop. And the state does not need to weigh in on religious doctrine. The state just has to say we’re going to treat everybody equally under the law. And then everybody else can have their own opinions.”

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Remarks by President Obama and President Kenyatta of Kenya in a Press Conference at Kenyan State House in Nairobi, Kenya https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/25/remarks-president-obama-and-president-kenyatta-kenya-press-conference (July 25, 2015)
2015

“First, the shootings in Minnesota and Baton Rouge, and the protests, then the targeting of police by the shooter here -- an act not just of demented violence but of racial hatred. All of it has left us wounded, and angry, and hurt. It’s as if the deepest fault lines of our democracy have suddenly been exposed, perhaps even widened. And although we know that such divisions are not new -- though they have surely been worse in even the recent past -- that offers us little comfort.”

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2016, Memorial Service for Fallen Dallas Police Officers (July 2016)

“Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he — oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.”

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Campaign rally in Springfield, Missouri, July 30, 2008 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNxTApa2sQRu0Xx99P3jt2bEXw7gD928U6F00
2008

“[T]he most important position in a democracy is not the office of the President. The most important office is the office of citizen, because if you have citizens who are informed and know about other countries, and recognize that if we provide foreign aid to some distant country in Africa, that ultimately may make us healthier. And if you have a citizenry that recognizes that even if I have to pay slightly more in taxes — which nobody likes paying taxes -- but if I do, maybe I can provide that young child who lives in a poorer neighborhood an opportunity for a better life. And then because she has a job and a better life, she can pay taxes, and then everybody has more, and the society is better off. If you don't have citizens like that, then you're going to get leaders who think very narrowly and you'll be disappointed. So the job — one thing I always tell young people, don't just think that you elect somebody and then you expect them to solve all your problems and then you just sit back and complain when it doesn't happen. You have to work as a citizen also to provide the leaders the space and the direction to do the right thing. It's just as important for you to challenge ignorance or discrimination or people who are always thinking in terms of war”

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it's just as important for you to do that as the President because I don't care how good the person, the leader you elect is, if the people want something different. In a democracy, at least, that's what's going to happen.
2016, Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Town Hall (March 2016)

“Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.”

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Interview by David Remnick at the American Magazine Conference (23 October 2006) http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/barack_obama_i_inhaled_that_was_the_point_46068.asp
2006

“No religion is responsible for terrorism — people are responsible for violence and terrorism.”

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At the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/18/obama-white-house-summit-on-countering-violent-extremism-speech/23631625/ (18 February 2015)
2015

“I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change - but in yours. I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written: Yes, we can. Yes, we did. Yes, we can.”

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2017, Farewell Address (January 2017)

“Even though I'm president of the United States, my power is not limitless. So I can't dive down there and plug the hole. I can't suck it up with a straw. All I can do is make sure that I put honest, hard-working smart people in place … to implement this thing.”

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Radio interview, Grand Isle, LA, June 11, 2010. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/06/obama-on-spill-i-cant-suck-it.html?hpid=news-col-blog
2010, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 2010)

“I indicated in a speech at the National Defense University last May that we needed a more robust public discussion about the balance between security and liberty. Of course, what I did not know at the time is that within weeks of my speech, an avalanche of unauthorized disclosures would spark controversies at home and abroad that have continued to this day. And given the fact of an open investigation, I’m not going to dwell on Mr. Snowden’s actions or his motivations; I will say that our nation’s defense depends in part on the fidelity of those entrusted with our nation’s secrets. If any individual who objects to government policy can take it into their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will not be able to keep our people safe, or conduct foreign policy. Moreover, the sensational way in which these disclosures have come out has often shed more heat than light, while revealing methods to our adversaries that could impact our operations in ways that we may not fully understand for years to come.”

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2014, Review of Signals Intelligence Speech (June 2014)

“There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times. The people of Egypt have spoken, their voices have been heard, and Egypt will never be the same.”

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2011, Remarks on Egyptian political transition (February 2011)

“The demographics of the country are going to change. It's inevitable. The Latino community in America is going to grow. If you stopped all immigration today, just by virtue of birth rates, this is going to be a browner country.”

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NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama http://www.npr.org/2016/12/19/504998487/transcript-and-video-nprs-exit-interview-with-president-obama (19 December 2016)
2016