Barack Obama Quotes And Sayings

Whether Our Forebears Were Strangers Who Crossed The Atlantic Or The Pacific Or The Rio Grande, We Are Here Only Because This Country Welcomed Them In And Taught Them That To Be An American Is About Something More Than What We Look Like, Or What Our Last Names Are, Or How We Worship.

Let Us Remember We Are All Part Of One American Family. We Are United In Common Values, And That Includes Belief In Equality Under The Law, Basic Respect For Public Order, And The Right Of Peaceful Protest.

What Makes Us Americans Is Our Shared Commitment To An Ideal - That All Of Us Are Created Equal, And All Of Us Have The Chance To Make Of Our Lives What We Will.

America Isn't Congress. America Isn't Washington. America Is The Striving Immigrant Who Starts A Business, Or The Mom Who Works Two Low-wage Jobs To Give Her Kid A Better Life. America Is The Union Leader And The Ceo Who Put Aside Their Differences To Make The Economy Stronger.

When States Like Alabama And Arizona Passed Some Of The Harshest Immigration Laws In History, My Attorney General Took Them On In Court And We Won.

The Immigration Issue Is, I Recognize, One That Generates A Lot Of Passion, But It Does Not Make Sense For Us To Want To Push Talent Out.

America Thrived In The 20th Century Because We Made High School Free. We Sent A Generation To College. We Cultivated The Most Educated Workforce In The World.

I Think One Of The Great Things About The United States Has Been Our Ability To Maintain A Distinction Between Our Military And Domestic Law Enforcement.

I'm Going To Try To Unite All Americans.

That's What The Affordable Care Act Is All About. It's About Filling The Gaps In Employer-based Care So That When We Lose A Job, Or Go Back To School, Or Start That New Business, We'll Still Have Coverage.

First, How Do We Give Everyone A Fair Shot At Opportunity And Security In This New Economy? Second, How Do We Make Technology Work For Us, And Not Against Us - Especially When It Comes To Solving Urgent Challenges Like Climate Change? Third, How Do We Keep America Safe And Lead The World Without Becoming Its Policeman?

Money Is Not The Only Answer, But It Makes A Difference.

Immigrants Aren't The Reason Wages Haven't Gone Up Enough; Those Decisions Are Made In The Boardrooms That Too Often Put Quarterly Earnings Over Long-term Returns.

With Patient And Firm Determination, I Am Going To Press On For Jobs. I'm Going To Press On For Equality. I'm Going To Press On For The Sake Of Our Children. I'm Going To Press On For The Sake Of All Those Families Who Are Struggling Right Now. I Don't Have Time To Feel Sorry For Myself. I Don't Have Time To Complain. I Am Going To Press On.

Surveys Show Our Standing Around The World Is Higher Than When I Was Elected To This Office, And When It Comes To Every Important International Issue, People Of The World Do Not Look To Beijing Or Moscow To Lead - They Call Us.

It's One Of The Few Regrets Of My Presidency - That The Rancor And Suspicion Between The Parties Has Gotten Worse Instead Of Better. There's No Doubt A President With The Gifts Of Lincoln Or Roosevelt Might Have Better Bridged The Divide, And I Guarantee I'll Keep Trying To Be Better So Long As I Hold This Office.

We Also Can't Try To Take Over And Rebuild Every Country That Falls Into Crisis. That's Not Leadership; That's A Recipe For Quagmire, Spilling American Blood And Treasure That Ultimately Weakens Us. It's The Lesson Of Vietnam, Of Iraq - And We Should Have Learned It By Now.

Our Brand Of Democracy Is Hard. But I Can Promise That A Year From Now, When I No Longer Hold This Office, I'll Be Right There With You As A Citizen - Inspired By Those Voices Of Fairness And Vision, Of Grit And Good Humor And Kindness That Have Helped America Travel So Far.

I See Americans Of Every Party, Every Background, Every Faith Who Believe That We Are Stronger Together: Black, White, Latino, Asian, Native American; Young, Old; Gay, Straight; Men, Women, Folks With Disabilities, All Pledging Allegiance Under The Same Proud Flag To This Big, Bold Country That We Love. That's What I See. That's The America I Know!

Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me 35 Years Ago.

I Can Say With Confidence There Has Never Been A Man Or A Woman - Not Me, Not Bill, Nobody - More Qualified Than Hillary Clinton To Serve As President Of The United States Of America.

Ours Is A Nation Of Laws: Of Citizens Who Live Under Them And For The Citizens Who Enforce Them. So, To A Community In Ferguson That Is Rightly Hurting And Looking For Answers, Let Me Call Once Again For Us To Seek Some Understanding Rather Than Simply Holler At Each Other. Let's Seek To Heal Rather Than To Wound Each Other.

On Every Front There Are Clear Answers Out There That Can Make This Country Stronger, But We're Going To Break Through The Fear And The Frustration People Are Feeling. Our Job Is To Make Sure That Even As We Make Progress, That We Are Also Giving People A Sense Of Hope And Vision For The Future.

When We Think Of The Major Threats To Our National Security, The First To Come To Mind Are Nuclear Proliferation, Rogue States And Global Terrorism. But Another Kind Of Threat Lurks Beyond Our Shores, One From Nature, Not Humans - An Avian Flu Pandemic.

My Job Is Not To Represent Washington To You, But To Represent You To Washington.

You Know, My Faith Is One That Admits Some Doubt.

I Think When You Spread The Wealth Around It's Good For Everybody.

I Cannot Swallow Whole The View Of Lincoln As The Great Emancipator.

I Think It Is Important For Europe To Understand That Even Though I Am President And George Bush Is Not President, Al Qaeda Is Still A Threat.

So While I Will Never Minimize The Costs Involved In Military Action, I Am Convinced That A Failure To Act In Libya Would Have Carried A Far Greater Price For America.

If Everybody That Voted In 2008 Shows Up In 2010, We Will Win This Election. We Will Win This Election.

Nobody Wants To Put The Creditworthiness Of The United States In Jeopardy. Nobody Wants To See The United States Default. So We've Got To Seize This Moment, And We Have To Seize It Soon.

Americans... Still Believe In An America Where Anything's Possible - They Just Don't Think Their Leaders Do.

Let Me Be Absolutely Clear. Israel Is A Strong Friend Of Israel's. It Will Be A Strong Friend Of Israel's Under A Mccain Administration. It Will Be A Strong Friend Of Israel's Under An Obama Administration. So That Policy Is Not Going To Change.

We Know That The Nation That Goes All-in On Innovation Today Will Own The Global Economy Tomorrow. This Is An Edge America Cannot Surrender.

In A Summer Marked By Instability In The Middle East And Eastern Europe, I Know The World Also Took Notice Of The Small American City Of Ferguson, Missouri - Where A Young Man Was Killed, And A Community Was Divided. So Yes, We Have Our Own Racial And Ethnic Tensions.

I Am The Commander In Chief Of The United States Armed Forces, And Iraq Is Gonna Have To Ultimately Provide For Its Own Security.

I'm The President Of The United States. I'm Not The Emperor Of The United States.

If People Continue To Feel Like Democrats Are Looking After Poor Folks And Republicans Are Looking After Rich Folks And Nobody Is Looking After Me, Then We Don't Get A Lot Of Stuff Done. And The Trend Lines Evidence The Fact That Folks Have Gotten Squeezed. And Obviously, 2007, 2008 Really Ripped Open For People How Vulnerable They Were.

Food Stamp Recipients Didn't Cause The Financial Crisis; Recklessness On Wall Street Did.

Fifty Years Of Isolating Cuba Had Failed To Promote Democracy, Setting Us Back In Latin America. That's Why We Restored Diplomatic Relations, Opened The Door To Travel And Commerce, And Positioned Ourselves To Improve The Lives Of The Cuban People.

We Need To Reject Any Politics That Targets People Because Of Race Or Religion. This Isn't A Matter Of Political Correctness. It's A Matter Of Understanding What Makes Us Strong. The World Respects Us Not Just For Our Arsenal; It Respects Us For Our Diversity And Our Openness And The Way We Respect Every Faith.

As We Speak, Iran Has Rolled Back Its Nuclear Program, Shipped Out Its Uranium Stockpile, And The World Has Avoided Another War.

Our Public Life Withers When Only The Most Extreme Voices Get Attention. Most Of All, Democracy Breaks Down When The Average Person Feels Their Voice Doesn't Matter; That The System Is Rigged In Favor Of The Rich Or The Powerful Or Some Narrow Interest.

What I'm Asking For Is Hard. It's Easier To Be Cynical; To Accept That Change Isn't Possible, And Politics Is Hopeless, And To Believe That Our Voices And Actions Don't Matter. But If We Give Up Now, Then We Forsake A Better Future.

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.

We Need To Keep Making Our Streets Safer And Our Criminal Justice System Fairer - Our Homeland More Secure, Our World More Peaceful And Sustainable For The Next Generation.

The United States Is Not, And Never Will Be, At War With Islam.

We Have Now Just Enshrined, As Soon As I Sign This Bill, The Core Principle That Everybody Should Have Some Basic Security When It Comes To Their Healthcare.

After A Century Of Trying, We Declared That Healthcare In America Is Not A Privilege For A Few, It Is A Right For Everybody. After Decades Of Talk, We Finally Began To Wean Ourselves Off Foreign Oil. We Doubled Our Production Of Clean Energy. We Brought More Of Our Troops Home To Their Families, And We Delivered Justice To Osama Bin Laden.