{"author":"Barack Obama","author_id":"Barack+Obama","total_quotes":188,"quotes":[{"text":"More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["patriotism","values","wealth"],"id":3143,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["determination","helping-others","hope","initiative","just-do-it","proactivity","service","volunteerism","work"],"id":3827,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["heart","empathy","gay "],"id":10591,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["law","vote","care "],"id":14677,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore eliminates the basis for thoughtful compromise. It rewards not those who are right, but those - like the White House press office - who can make their arguments most loudly, most frequently, most obstinately, and with the best backdrop.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["argument","barack-obama","compromise","media","news","opinion","opinions","politics","press","united-states","white-house"],"id":15416,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["america","inauguration","inspiration"],"id":17443,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["want","i can","president "],"id":19202,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["power","worry","you "],"id":27511,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["america","college","dream "],"id":28495,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["achieving","greatness","inspirational","obama-speeches"],"id":37418,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":188,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}