Barack Obama Quotes

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

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 realize your true potential.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

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.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

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

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

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.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.