Barack Obama Quotes

We can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face.

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy.

Iran . . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful . . . time is not unlimited.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.

Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.

If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as a country, you know, then we don't have a religious test in this country.

Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

I believe when women succeed America succeeds!

The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.

Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit.

We rise and fall as one people, one nation.

What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

I've been called worse on the basketball court.

What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger

Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.

One of the best parts of the holiday season is spending time with the special people in your life.

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America.