100+ Barack Obama Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - "Misrepresenting Obama's audiobook, Hannity claimed Obama said, 'White folks' greed runs a world in need'" by Varun Piplani, www.mediamatters.org. August 21, 2008.

Topics: Running, Years, White, Apartheid, Residents

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

Topics: Party, People, Diversity

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Topics: Fighting, Honor, Compromise

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

Topics: Country, Years, Pockets

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Topics: Inspirational, Violence, Complicated

I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is a source of our strength. That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva conventions. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.

Topics: War, Believe, Commitment, Geneva Convention, Guantanamo Bay

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.

Topics: Military, President, Doe, Commander In Chief

I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world.

Topics: Mistake, People, Evil

As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

Topics: Struggle, Pride, Men, Struggle For Freedom

The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion that we want to quit paying a hidden tax and be up front about covering people in a way that is cost-effective.

Topics: Stupid, Fighting, People

He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

Topics: Running, Country, Phones

There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

source: - "India Space Programs and Exploration Handbook". USA International Business Publications, 2007.

Topics: Country, Memories, Ambition, Free Man, Common Purpose

I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action.Where I can act on my own without Congress, I'm going to do so. I've got a pen to take executive actions where Congress won't, and I've got a telephone to rally folks around the country on this mission.

Topics: Country, Phones, Order, Executive Orders

I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go?

Topics: Thinking, Dumb, States

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

Topics: Mad, Half, Kind, Being Mad

Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then their common humanity is revealed. We are reminded that we're joined together by our pursuit of a life that's productive and purposeful, and when that happens mistrust begins to fade and our smaller differences no longer overshadow the things that we share. And that's where progress begins.

Topics: Wall, Simple, Differences, Study Abroad, Common Experience

America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both and I'll never forget those values.

Topics: Country, Strong, Blessed, Strong Values, Strong Family

For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

Topics: Pro Life, Challenges, Principles, Collective Action

I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

Topics: Years, Knowing, Promise

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.

Topics: Country, Caring, America

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

Topics: Full Potential, Matter, Chance

That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

Topics: Real, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me.

Topics: America, Office, Stronger

Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

Topics: Passion, Dedication, Light, Solemn, Uncertain Future

We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.

Topics: Strong, Jobs, Childhood, Research And Development, Job Training

And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.

Topics: Education, Teacher, Children, Early Childhood, Early Childhood Education

The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."

Topics: Gay, Issues, Rights, All State, Equal Protection

John McCain has not spoken about my Muslim faith.

Topics: Mccain, Muslim Faith

What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.

Topics: Jobs, Growth, Looks

Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

Topics: Taken, Leader, Political, Appeasement

If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

Topics: Religious, Sincere, Condom, Scientific Evidence

We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.

Topics: Military, People, Safe

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

Topics: Teacher, Father, Men, Being A Father, Being A Role Model

Iran has made vile comments, anti-Semitic comments, comments about the destruction of Israel. It is precisely for that reason that even before I became president, I said Iran could not have a nuclear weapon.

Topics: Israel, Iran, President

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

Topics: Children, Dad, Mistake

Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.

Topics: Persistence, Challenges, President

Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Topics: Children, Eye, Journey, Inaugural, Inauguration

Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

Topics: Country, Gun, People

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

Topics: Hands, Deceit, Fists, Inaugural, Inauguration

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

Topics: Thinking, People, Vision

I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting

Topics: Country, Play, Watches, Batting

If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future, because China, Germany - they're making these [clean energy] investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries. I expect those new energy sources to be built right here in the United States.

Topics: Country, Jobs, Thinking, New Energy, Energy Sources

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

Topics: Congress, Members, Capitol

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

Topics: Native American, Firsts, Native

If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.

Topics: Doctors, Choices, Employers

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

Topics: Religious, Mean, Belief

The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.

Topics: Rights, Agreement, Environmental, Trade Agreements

I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

Topics: Country, Thinking, Agreement, Fair Trade, Free Trade

The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still...

Topics: Winning, Stills

By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president.

Topics: Country, Taken, Kids

Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.

Topics: Men, Uniforms, He Man

I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.

Topics: Special, Reform, Spending

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.

Topics: Jobs, Children, Father, Conception

We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

Topics: Book, White, Black, Black Youth

I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

Topics: Daughter, Perspective, Dinner

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Topics: Successful, Thinking, Needs

Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

Topics: Talking, Class, People, Class Warfare

It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

source: - Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. July 16, 2012.

Topics: Zero, Important, Privacy

I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.

Topics: Strong, Cutting, Dollars

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

Topics: Wanted

Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.

Topics: Pay, Likes, Taxes

You can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside.

Topics: Systemic Change

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

Topics: Acting, Use, Conflict, Hard Truths, Use Of Force

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

Topics: Jobs, Dad, Father, Fathering, Parents Love

Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Topics: Wall, Home, Sacrifice

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

Topics: Trying, Obligation

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

Topics: Cutting, Thinking, Irritated

We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power or fame, but rather how well we have Loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

Topics: What Matters, People, Fleeting

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

Topics: Three, Cards, Credit

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Topics: Character, Empathy, Quality

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

Topics: Jobs, Vote

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

Topics: Inspirational, Choices, Energy, Personal Leadership, Tough Choices

There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.

Topics: Race, Focus, Risk

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Topics: Book, Reading, Important

The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

Topics: Years, Abortion, Use, Human Trafficking

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

Topics: Girl, Country, Moving

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.

Topics: Doctors, Important, Judgment, Reproductive Health

I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.

Topics: Caring, What Matters, Names

The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

Topics: Differences, People, Democracy, Lively, Greater Purpose

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

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Topics: Country, Mean, People

A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice

Topics: Men, Hands, Justice

I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

Topics: Thinking, Judging, People

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

Topics: Children, Knowing, Climate, Inaugural, Inaugural Address

I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.

source: - "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.

Topics: Thinking, Judging, Support, Treated Unfairly

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

Topics: Turns, Behinds, Learning From Our Mistakes

All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.

Topics: Cost, Care, Want

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.

Topics: Girl, Dream, Goes On