Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Future Quotes , Presidential Quotes

We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Gay Quotes , Uganda Quotes

If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Technology Quotes

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Country Quotes , Language Quotes

The Russians sought to interfere with the election process - that the cyber hacking that took place by the Russians was part of that campaign, and that they had a clear preference in terms of outcomes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Election Process Quotes , Outcomes Quotes

Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Order Quotes

We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Daughter Quotes , Dream Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , Responsibility Quotes

Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Threat Quotes

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Play Quotes , Political Quotes

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , War Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes

They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Children Quotes , Giving Up Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Bridges Quotes , Tools Quotes

One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Character Quotes

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Ransom Quotes , Economy Quotes

I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Baby Quotes , Airplane Quotes

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Pages Quotes , Claims Quotes

The president of the United States is supposed to lead the free world and not follow it. Other nations have been more outspoken. So, I hope that we'll hear more of this because young men and women taking to the streets in Tehran need our support. The signs are in English. They're basically asking for us to speak up on their behalf.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Men Quotes , Support Quotes