Thinker Comparison

Barack Obama vs. Stephen King

Read 20 entries attributed to Barack Obama alongside 20 attributed to Stephen King. Compare the wording and topic labels.

This page places 20 entries attributed to Barack Obama alongside 20 attributed to Stephen King. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.

Topic labels present in both displayed selections: love, time, death, life, family, knowledge. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Barack Obama, entry #54248: "I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as…"

Attributed to Stephen King, entry #1743: "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him…"

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Barack Obama

1961

Politics
United States
871 quotes

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S.

"I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISI…"

#ethics

"Madiba reminds us that: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate…"

#love

"When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer. That’s not telling it like it is. It’s just wrong…"

#justice

"Democracy will win -- because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more con…"

#politics

"There’s still enormous problems in our society. But democracy is the way that we solve them. That's how we got health care for more of our people. That's how…"

#justice

"And because no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage b…"

#time

"Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat."

#death

"There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq."

"Agreements among nations. Strong institutions. Support for human rights. Investments in development. All these are vital ingredients in bringing about the ev…"

#life

"We always have the opportunity to choose our better history. We can always understand that most important decision -- the decision we make when we find our c…"

#justice

"Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over."

#justice

"And that’s why we support societies that empower women -- because no country will reach its potential unless it draws on the talents of our wives and our mot…"

#family

"But you know, we — when we feel stress, when we feel pressure, when we’re just fed information that encourages some of our worst instincts, we tend to fall b…"

#knowledge

"I was honored to be the first U.S. President to visit Cuba in almost 90 years. And we still have differences with the Cuban government, but what I said to Pr…"

#time

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

#war

"We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or l…"

#time

"Of course, neither the United States nor Europe are perfect in adherence to our ideals, nor do we claim to be the sole arbiter of what is right or wrong in t…"

#leadership

"We’ve got to resist the false trap that says either there should be no accountability for police or that every police officer is suspect no matter what they do."

#truth

"As free peoples, we recognize that democracy is the most effective form of government ever devised for delivering progress and opportunity and prosperity and…"

#freedom

"This ruling is a victory for Jim Obergefell and the other plaintiffs in the case. It's a victory for gay and lesbian couples who have fought so long for thei…"

#family
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Stephen King

1986

Literature
United States
228 quotes

Stephen Edwin King is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.

"Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and …"

#love

"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mun…"

#love

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to…"

#love

"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they und…"

#love

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

#life

"Alice had managed to get herself back under some sort of control, but it was thin. Thin enough to read a newspaper through, his bingo-playing mother might ha…"

#power

"What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane."

#knowledge

"Worlds sometimes shudder and turn inside their axes, and this was such a time. Flagg felt it, but did not grasp it. The salvation of all that is good is only…"

#philosophy

"You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you."

#family

"I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker."

#time

"Arnie didn't say a lot more, but a kid I knew named Randy Turner was there, and he filled me in on what happened in more detail after school had started agai…"

#death

"My dad has hated me for as long as I can remember. That's a pretty sweeping statement, and I know how phony it sounds. It sounds petulant and really fantasti…"

#time

"Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark."

#family

"Go down, Jack. Get them and I'll take the cancer away. Oh, but right now he had more immediate concerns, didn't he? He was swelling up like a waterlogged spo…"

#life

"Luke had to use all his willpower to keep from drinking the whole sixteen-ounce bottle of water at a single go. He left a quarter of it, set it down, then sn…"

#life

"In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts."

#mind

"The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face... and if bait were needed, w…"

#power

"No, of course victims of high-gamma radiation didn't turn transparent, like Claude Rains in The Invisible Man. They didn't start to lose inches as their bodi…"

#life

"I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way …"

#mind

"Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret."

#death
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