Barack Hussein Obama II quotes
1961 – · United States, 21st century · Politician, attorney, author
About Barack Hussein Obama II
Born in 1961 in Honolulu, raised partly in Hawaii and Indonesia, educated at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard Law (first Black president of the Harvard Law Review). Before the presidency he worked as a community organizer, civil‑rights lawyer, law professor, Illinois state senator and U.S. senator. His public work focuses on economic policy, health care, foreign affairs and innovation.
Works: Dreams from My Father; The Audacity of Hope; A Promised Land
Quotes
“When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.”
Source: Remarks by the President on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, January 15, 2014 · Check the source
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- The sentence appears in President Obama’s remarks at NC State on January 15, 2014, and was posted the same day on his official social-media account.
A compact call to collective resilience: Obama used this line to argue that economic setbacks demand organized response, not surrender. He spoke it while unveiling a plan to link universities, industry and government to revive manufacturing and jobs.