Barack Obama

Quotes

• “I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundam...”
• “It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their h...”
• “‎Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the res...”
• “There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term ...”
• “We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a...”
• “There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this countr...”
• “On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through t...”
• “What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children...”
• “Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right...”
• “I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems ind...”
• “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The for...”
• “The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has ...”
• “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 ...”
• “Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the...”
• “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been wai...”
• “We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower it...”
• “In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
• “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
• “Yes We Can!”