Yes We Can Quotes:

According to some reports coming out of Washington today, President Obama said Kanye West is a 'jackass.' Not since 'yes, we can' has Obama found a slogan so many Americans can get behind.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Yes We Can, President, Today

Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was 'going to get worse before it gets better.' See, that's when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? 'The audacity of hope!' 'Yes, we can!' 'A change we can believe in!' Now it's, 'We're all screwed.'

- Jay Leno

topic: Believe, Yes We Can, Yesterday, It Gets Better, Audacity Of Hope

The Obama administration has admitted that under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor. At first the president guaranteed you'd be able to keep your doctor, and now they're saying you 'might' be able to. Today Obama changed his slogan from 'Yes we can' to 'Perhaps we could try. Can't promise anything.'

- Jay Leno

topic: Doctors, Obamacare, Yes We Can

Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to 'unlock their full potential,' because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, 'You can't just steal someone's slogan like that!' And Hillary said, 'Yes we can!'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Yes We Can, People, Criticism

I feel strongly that Mother Teresa’s life has a great message for young people. We so often feel powerless to do anything about the many problems in the world around us. We are so often left to wonder whether one person can possibly make a difference. Mother Teresa said yes, we can. Her life was resounding proof that it is possible

- Craig Kielburger

source: Craig Kielburger (2010). “Free The Children”, p.64, Greystone Books

topic: Mother, Yes We Can, Differences

Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our God-given pwer to make the world in our image, God allows us that freedom; we have the kind of license to do that.that's how love works. It cant be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want, because love wins.

- Rob Bell

topic: Winning, Yes We Can, Despair

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

- Barack Obama

topic: Yes We Can, World, Want, Do Whatever You Want

This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

- Barack Obama

source: President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

topic: Yes We Can, People, Doubt

Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.

- Barack Obama

source: South Carolina Democratic Primary Victory Speech, delivered 26 January 2008

topic: Yes We Can

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

- Barack Obama

source: President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

topic: Hard Work, Responsibility, Yes We Can

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

topic: Night, Destiny, Yes We Can, Unforgiving, Abolitionist

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.

- Barack Obama

source: FaceBook post by Barack Obama from Feb 29, 2012

topic: Dream, Yes We Can, America

With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don't get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.

- Bashar al-Assad

source: Source: legrandsoir.info

topic: Yes We Can, Secular Society, Style

The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.

- Donna Brazile

source: "My Interview With Donna Brazile". Interview with Eric aka the TYGRRRR EXPRESS, tygrrrrexpress.com. 2008.

topic: Yes We Can, Black, Nominations

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

- Ron Fournier

topic: Morning, Destiny, Yes We Can, Manifest Destiny, National Identity

I’m supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech - when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better. But here’s the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.

- Bill Maher

source: Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.162, Penguin

topic: Yes We Can, Guy, Black, Great Speech

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

- Barack Obama

source: June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

- June Jordan

topic: Waiting, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Change, Inspirational Presidential, Time And Change

we are the ones we have been waiting for

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

topic: Confidence, Waiting, African American, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

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

- Barack Obama

topic: Truth, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Impossible Odds, Yes We Can

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

- Barack Obama

topic: Determination, Voice, Long, False Hope, Yes We Can

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

What's become of "yes we can?" That's easy. Finally people are starting to read the bills.

- Tom C. Korologos

source: The Arena debates: driving the conversation by David Mark, www.politico.com. August 21, 2009.

topic: Starting Over, People, Bills, Yes We Can

We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.

- Barack Obama

topic: Sea, Diversity, People, Yes We Can, Unity In Diversity

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

topic: Kings, Moon, Land, Mountain Top, Yes We Can

While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

- China Mieville

topic: Recovery, Government, Smell, Yes We Can

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

- Julianne Malveaux

source: Source: www.theskanner.com

topic: Children, Moving, Writing, Epilogues, Yes We Can

The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.

- Mark Shields

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Morning, Moving, Optimistic, John Kennedy, Presidential Election

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

- Gustav Nossal

topic: Leadership, Country, Clever, Research And Innovation, Yes We Can

I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous. I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school. Of the America that made America famous...and Of the people who just might understand That how together yes we can Create a country better than The one we have made of this land, We have a choice to make each man who dares to dream, reaching out his hand A prophet or just a crazy God damn Dreamer of a fool

- Harry Chapin

source: Song: What Made America Famous?, 1974

topic: Dream, Country, Crazy, Yes We Can