Barack Obama Quotes

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.

Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward.

I'm a Christian by choice.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

We are a people of improbable hope.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

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[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

Please proceed, Governor.

We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources.

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.

The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.

We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX.

Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up.