Barack Obama Quotes

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

What is true in the South is true for America.

Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name.

Keeping our military strong means keepin' our families strong.

What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth in our economy are getting the kind of financing that they need.

Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars.

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.

Leaving the broken system the way it is, that's not a solution.

Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

Libya is still a mess right now.

I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them.

America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation.

Trump is not somebody who's fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated, not because anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country.

We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.

By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.

It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.

I think ultimately is, Donald Trump is pragmatic.

My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons.

[My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

No single nation should pick and choose which nations holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.

We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.

Do I need to apologize for Mr.[Tom] Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either.

I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.