Barack Obama Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Barack Obama
Barack Obama Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Barack Obama on Wise Famous Quotes.
So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.
She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.
You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.
With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.
The government can't solve every problem, but an enlightened government can make sure that people can work hard for their dreams and achieve them.
To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.
We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.
With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
Don't just buy a new video game, make one.
Don't just download the latest app, help design it.
Don't just play on your phone, program it.
Don't just download the latest app, help design it.
Don't just play on your phone, program it.
I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.
This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted.
Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.
If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.
Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
I hope you don't listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.
It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem ... Change depends on our actions.
For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.
I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.
99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.
My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
You know, I think that we are going to be OK. Look, Malia is 10, so three years from now she is 13. Who knows what happens to teenagers?
We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.
Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.
Later, when I became more familiar with the narrower path to happiness to be found in television and the movies, I'd become troubled by questions.
Where once I'd felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.
I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.