Barack Obama quotes

Nothing in life that's worth anything is easy.
- Barack Obama

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
- Barack Obama

Progress will come in fits and starts. It is not always a straight line. It is not always smooth path.
- Barack Obama

That’s one of the hardest things in politics to convince people of: to make investments today that don’t pay off until many years from now.
- Barack Obama

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
- Barack Obama

As husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up, because every girl’s life matters. Every daughter deserves the same chance as our sons. Every woman should be able to go about her day — to walk the streets or ride the bus — and be safe, and be treated with respect and dignity. She deserves that.
- Barack Obama

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
- Barack Obama

Malia and Sasha, under the strangest of circumstances, you have become two amazing young women, smart and beautiful, but more importantly, kind and thoughtful and full of passion. You wore the burden of years in the spotlight so easily. Of all that I've done in my life, I'm most proud to be your dad.
- Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama

If we get in the habit where a few folks, an extremist wing of one party, whether it’s Democrat or Republican, are allowed to extort concessions based on a threat of undermining the full faith and credit of the United States, then any president who comes after me, not just me, will find themselves unable to govern effectively.
- Barack Obama

Let’s disagree on the issues, but let’s work together to protect a system of government that has stood strong for 240 years and made us the greatest country on Earth.
- Barack Obama

If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president, being married to Michelle Obama is number one.
- Barack Obama

It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
- Barack Obama

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.
- Barack Obama

Understand, democracy does not require uniformity. Our founders quarreled and compromised, and expected us to do the same. But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity—the idea that for all our outward differences, we are all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
- Barack Obama

You know, the Lincoln Bedroom, I don’t go into much, except when there are visitors. Every once in a while, I’ll sneak in, just to reread the Gettysburg Address.
- Barack Obama

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
- Barack Obama

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.
- Barack Obama

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.
- Barack Obama

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.
- Barack Obama

The value of social movements and activism is to get you at the table, get you in the room, and then to start trying to figure out how is this problem going to be solved.
- Barack Obama

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.
- Barack Obama

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
- Barack Obama

The evangelists' success points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause. They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.
- Barack Obama