Barack Obama Quotes

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.

Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.

I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.

Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security.

I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.

You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about.

There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.

Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere.

Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple A country.

That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.

You're likable enough, Hillary.

I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.'

We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.

Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

Nations are more successful when their women are successful.

As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

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.

We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'

The world is less violent than it has ever been.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

All people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love.

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

you can't just heely away from your problems forever

A person’s zip code shouldn’t decide their destiny.