Barack Obama Quotes

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.

"The Donald" is not really a plans guy.

The easiest way to save money is to waste less energy.

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

If everybody who voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.

You like pie? I like pie.

There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.

Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

You can be stylish, and powerful too.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

While we breathe, we will hope.

I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that Senator [Marco] Rubio put forward, I think is a great place to start.

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation.

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.