Barack Obama Quotes

As we look forward to the New Year, let's resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.

We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

[White House is] the finest prison in the world.

Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.

Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

America is number one in wind power.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.

Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation.