History Lesson: Ingenious Quotes from a Genius President

The following are all video-documented quotes taken from President Barack Obama’s speeches:

• “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”
• “I’ve now been in 57 states.  I think one left to go.”
• “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today.”
• “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about. It, it, it would cost about the same as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to. It. It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about…hold on one second.  I can’t hear myself.  But I’m glad you’re fired up, though.  I’m glad.”
• “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.”
• “I bowled a 129. It’s like – it was like the Special Olympics, or something.”
• “Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”
• “Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.”
• “It was interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of…I don’t know what the term is in Austrian…wheeling and dealing.” [Ed. - There is no language called “Austrian.”]
• “I have made good judgments in the past.  I have made good judgments in the future.”

And now you know why Obama takes his teleprompter with him everywhere he goes…even when talking to a 6th grade class!

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