Jair Bolsonaro vs. Barack Obama
Read 20 entries attributed to Jair Bolsonaro alongside 20 attributed to Barack Obama. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Jair Bolsonaro alongside 20 attributed to Barack Obama. 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: family, freedom, knowledge, justice, life, time, politics. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Jair Bolsonaro, entry #8059: "Competence? It's a problem for each deputy. If I want to hire a prostitute for my office, I'll hire her. If I want to hire my mother, I'll hire her. It'll be my problem."
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…"
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Jair Bolsonaro
1955 – 2019
Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.
"Competence? It's a problem for each deputy. If I want to hire a prostitute for my office, I'll hire her. If I want to hire my mother, I'll hire her. It'll be…"
#family"If one's son begins acting kind of gay, then when he is spanked he'll change his behavior."
#change"These agents from the Cuban regime were also taken to Venezuela by Hugo Chávez. Today around 60 thousand of them control and interfere with every area of loc…"
#freedom"What is a golden shower?"
#money"it's devastating to know that someone with so much influence has such a disdain for the queer community."
#knowledge"It's my advice and I do it: I evade all the taxes I can."
"To say that hunger happens in Brazil is a big lie. People don't eat well and get sick. That I agree. Now go hungry, no. You do not see poor people on the str…"
#success"If I'm president, I'll leave UN. That institution is of no use. It's an organization of communists, of people that don't have any commitment at least to Sout…"
#Human Nature"If by chance he erred and it were proven, I regret it as a father, but he’ll have to pay the price for those actions we can’t accept."
#family"Hungary is a country that has suffered a lot with communism in the past, a people that knows what dictatorship is. The Brazilian people still do not know wha…"
#knowledge"I defend torture. A drug dealer who acts on the streets against our children must to be immediately put on a pau-de-arara. There would be no human rights in …"
#family"When it comes to matters related to climate, democracy, human rights, to the equality of rights and duties between men and women, and many others, all we nee…"
#justice"These guys are going to die in the streets like cockroaches – and that’s how it should be."
#life"It's a mess. The next steps are the adoption of children and the legalization of pedophilia."
#family"In Brazil, we have 1,000 penis amputations a year due to a lack of water and soap. We have to find a way to get out of the bottom of this hole."
#time"I'm a victim of prejudice against heterosexuals."
"What debt ? I never enslaved anyone in my life. Look, if you really look at history, the Portuguese didn’t even step foot in Africa. The blacks themselves tu…"
#life"Our Amazon rainforest is larger than Western Europe and it remains virtually untouched. This shows that we are one of the countries that protects the most it…"
#time"Over the past few decades, we let ourselves be seduced by ideologies that sought not the truth, but absolute power. Ideology has settled in the domains of cu…"
#society"The recent declarations of Olavo de Carvalho against members of the government of the Republic do not contribute to the unity of its forces and the proposed …"
#politicsBarack Obama
1961
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