Barack Obama Quotes
Barack Obama Quotes
Yes We Can!
2188The 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 out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
2246 I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
1960 So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.
3339 Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
3030 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 waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
4871 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 - all of our children - a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
1417 In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
4078 But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.
1138 At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitments may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.
1186 Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.
3519 A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.
2745 We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.
3440 A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
4358 There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
1125 If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.
2090 Change we need
3129 I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.
4216 Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.
2325 All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.
3942 Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome - black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds
2016 The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
1191 We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.
3799 Orang takkan pernah terlalu sibuk untuk memahami asalnya. -Nenek
3510 We are the change we have been waiting for.
4601 In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
4514 I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."
(Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)
4653 it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
2898 It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.
2779 None of These Will Come Easy.
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