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.

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care."

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

You have to have a strong team around you [being a president].

I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible.

I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.

[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

I was able to do that [showing up of Democratic benefits] when I was the candidate. But I've not seen or presided over that kind of systematic outreach that I think needs to happen.

[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.

I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.

The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.

There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.

Try to be as honest as possible.

There are always going to be some complications.

Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

You work with what you got.

When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

There are enormous resources in Greece.

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

I don't think Donald Trump is ideological.

One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.

Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

America must always lead on the world stage.

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism.

We understand the concerns that people have with not only protecting our values, but our privacy interests as well. We think that the USA Freedom Act was a good resolution of that.

I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe.