Quotes

Question 1

Obama on Trump’s election

The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes

Answer 1

“So that happened”

Question 2

Obama after 2014 Midterms

The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes

Answer 2

“My Presidency is entering the fourth quarter; interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter”

Question 3

High school kid, meeting with Mahmoud Abbas

The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes

Answer 3

“Mr President, we are treated the same way the black people were treated in your country. Funded by your government”

Question 4

Obama on the second debate against Mitt Romney

The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes

Answer 4

“This isn’t really a debate at all, it’s just a performance”

Question 5

Obama on presidency

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Answer 5

“Every presidency is a story with one person at the center of it”

Question 6

Obama, calling Gaddafi to go

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Answer 6

“When a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now”

Question 7

Biden on Mubarak’s resignation

The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes

Answer 7

“All foreign policy is an extension of personal relastionships”

Question 8

Nobel Peace Prize speech

The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes

Answer 8

“The world as it is”

Question 9

Obama on foreign policy

The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes

Answer 9

“Day in and day out, it’s a trillion-dollar annual enterprise that plows forward like an ocean liner, shaping the lives of people in its wake whether they know it or not”

Question 10

Obama on being president

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Answer 10

“Being President isn’t as glamorous as they make it sound.”

Question 11

Obama on being black

The World as It Is - Ben Rhodes

Answer 11

“I’m black enough when I try to get a back.”

Question 12

DNC, 2012

Joe Biden

Answer 12

“Osama Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”

Question 13

Address to the Nation on US Counterterrorism Strategy, December 2015

Answer 13

“We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us. Our success won’t depend on tough talk abandoning our values or giving into fear. That’s what group like ISIL are hoping for. Instead, we will prevail by being strong and qmart, resilient and relentless, and by drawing upon every aspect of American power.”

Question 14

Statement in Ferguson, 2015

Answer 14

“So those should be the lessons that we draw from these tragic events. We need to recognize that this is not just an issue for Ferguson, this is an issue for America.”

Question 15

Mario Cuomo

Former New York Governor

Answer 15

“You campaign in poetry and govern in prose.é

Question 16

Dreier
“Organizing in the Obama Era”,
The John Marshall Law Review

Answer 16

“compared with other political operations, Obama’s campaign has embodied many characteristics of a social movement : a redenptive calling for a better society, coupling individual and social transformation. This is due not only to Obama’s rhetorical style but also to his campaign’s enlistment of hundreds of thousands of seasoned workers from unions, community groups, churches, peace and environmental groups. They, in turn, have mobilized thousands of volunteers, many of them neophytes in electoral politics, into tightly knit, highly motivated and efficient terms.”

Question 17

We Can’t Wait Campaign

Answer 17

“I will not take no for an answer. When Congress refuses to act and - as a result - hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation, as president, to do what I can without them.”

Question 18

John Kerry on climate change

Answer 18

Climate change is “not just a threat to the future of our planet, but a growing and immediate threat to our national security.”

Question 19

Kerry on Gitmo

Answer 19

“no single action would do more to reaffirm our commitment to international human rights norms and remove a recruiting tool for terrorists than closing” the site.

Question 20

Kerry on refugees

Answer 20

The USA had a “profound responsibility to help refugees.”

Question 21

Obama in Las Vegas: debate on health care

Answer 21

“Do we have the political will and the sense of urgency to actually get it done? I want to be held accountable for getting it done. I will judge my first term as president based on the fact of whether we have delivered the kind of health care that every American deserves and that our system can afford.”

Question 22

Obama, State Department address, May 2011

Libya

Answer 22

“The message [to Gaddafi and others] would have been clear: Keep power by killing as many people as it takes.”