Barack Obama Quotes

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.

We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic.

[Young people] are much less likely to express attitudes that defied us between us and them. They see themselves as part of a global economy that they can navigate successfully.

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

I believe it's important to be open and honest, especially with your friends.

He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.

Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.

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.

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.

I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.

I've enjoyed the conversations that we've had. [Donald Trump] is somebody who I think is not lacking in confidence.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

We don't make determinations about who we love. And that's why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong.

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself.

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.

I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

There are things I cannot say.

I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.