Top 61 Barack Obama Quotes

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Barack Obama was the 44^th president of the United States. He is known as a great orator. With that in mind, check out the top 61 Barack Obama quotes.

#61 – 60. Barack Obama Quotes

61. It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

60. A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

#59 – 50. Barack Obama Quotes

59. What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

58. You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.

57. Now, when you first become president, one of the questions people ask you is, what’s really going on in Area 51? … oh, I think I just became the first president to ever publicly mention Area 51… how’s that?

56. It is time to give Iraqis their country back.

55. If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep on walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

54. Lincoln – they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart…

53. Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential.

52. Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

51. The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

50. Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

#49 – 40. Barack Obama Quotes

49. I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America – I want to be President of the United States of America.

48. We are the change we have been waiting for.

47. [The] issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

46. But that’s not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

45. You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

44. We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

43. What we need in Washington is not more political tactics – we need more good ideas.

42. The role of citizen in a democracy does not end with your vote.

41. We need to make progress on some important issues. Take the sequester – Republicans fell in love with the whole thing, and now they can’t stop talking about how much they hate it. It’s like we’re trapped in a Taylor Swift album.

40. I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

#39 – 30. Barack Obama Quotes

39. Some things are beyond my control. For example, this whole controversy about Jay-Z going to Cuba – it’s unbelievable! I’ve got 99 problems, now Jay-Z is one.

38. Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

37. Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

36. Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

35. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us.

34. You can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.

33. There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

32. No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

31. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

30. Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

#29 – 20. Barack Obama Quotes

29. I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody’s religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

28. Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

27. Those who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can… that’s why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction… the American people’s hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours.

26. In the end, this is what this election’s about – do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

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

24. While we breathe, we will hope.

23. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

22. We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

21. Americans still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

20. What Washington needs is adult supervision.

#19 – 10. Barack Obama Quotes

19. If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

18. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

17. Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

16. The thing about Hip-Hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

15. Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

14. Change doesn’t come from Washington; change comes to Washington.

13. Yes We Can!

12. If we think we can just use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent’s patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.

11. One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

10. In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

#9 – 1. Barack Obama Quotes

9. The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power–and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.

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

7. 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.

6. Do something, Congress. Do anything.

5. It’s important to realise I was actually black before the election.

4. My advisors were a little worried about the new rap entrance music – they’re a little more traditional. They suggested I start with some jokes at my own expense – just to take myself down a peg. I was like, guys, guys, after four and a half years, how many pegs are there left?.

3. It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

2. The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

1. No one is pro-abortion.

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