Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Politician

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, notable for his focus on hope, change, and healthcare reform through the Affordable Care Act.

Thinking People Country America Believe Children
Born
August 4, 1961
Quotes
3.1K
Rank
#191

Quote collection

Barack Obama quotes (page 69 of 157)

3.1K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.

Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time."

Writing Destiny Opportunity
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to stand with the people of Ukraine and for the basic principle that nations have a right to determine their own destiny and we discussed the importance of maintaining sanctions until Russia fully complies with the Minsk Agreement."

Destiny Russia Ukraine
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop."

Powerful Hitting Folks
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem."

Great Depression Problem Wealth
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran."

Iran Diplomacy
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology."

Science Math Technology
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher."

Christian Jesus Powerful
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football."

Football Son Thinking
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security."

Jobs Oil Energy
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else."

Community Unity Helping
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election."

Thinking Political Black
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned."

Love Christian Easter
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology."

Hateful Speak Terrorist
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."

Country Numbers World
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose."

Christian College Years
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"[This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance."

Mean Upset Transition
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most."

Giving Long Speech
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group."

Leadership Military War
Read quote 3 likes
Barack Obama Politician
Popular

"Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need."

Purpose Poverty Aids
Read quote 3 likes