Barack Obama Quotes

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.

We will respond to the threat of climate change

A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

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

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

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way.

Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.

I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job.

Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

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

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.

Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis.

I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

Never give up on your dreams.

Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya.