Barack Obama Quotes

With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the world didn't go into a Great Depression.

Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration.

We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.

Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat.

Democracy is hard work.

What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate.

What is true, though, is now we've got a bunch of videos that whatever side of the issue you're on, raises the temperature on these issues and makes people really focused .

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection.

There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.

The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.

In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day.

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.

I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.

We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.

I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.

I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.

Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.

If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.

I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.

What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.