Top 500 Barack Obama Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.”

— Barack Obama

452. “Senator Joe Biden is pretty clean and articulate for a white guy.”

— Barack Obama

453. “In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”

— Barack Obama

454. “Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.”

— Barack Obama

455. “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.”

— Barack Obama

456. “Have you ever noticed that if there’s a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?”

— Barack Obama

457. “I don’t want to make promises, not knowing what the situation’s going to be three or four years out.”

— Barack Obama

458. “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.”

— Barack Obama

459. “Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country’s success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.”

— Barack Obama

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460. “Change has come to America.”

— Barack Obama

461. “You’re the reason why selfless soldiers won’t be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love.”

— Barack Obama

462. “I’m a strong believer in strong encryption.”

— Barack Obama

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463. “We can’t wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won’t act, I will.”

— Barack Obama

464. “If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.”

— Barack Obama

465. “The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.”

— Barack Obama

466. “A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.”

— Barack Obama

467. “I think it’s really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women’s contraception, family planning.”

— Barack Obama

468. “One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.”

— Barack Obama

469. “We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.”

— Barack Obama

470. “The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.”

— Barack Obama

471. “Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.”

— Barack Obama

472. “I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing.”

— Barack Obama

473. “Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.”

— Barack Obama

474. “Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values.”

— Barack Obama

475. “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.”

— Barack Obama

476. “Buy health insurance, or go to jail.”

— Barack Obama

477. “I’ve got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody’s sons have. That’s part of what I’m fighting for as president of the United States.”

— Barack Obama

478. “Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.”

— Barack Obama

479. “The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.”

— Barack Obama

480. “This is not class warfare – it’s math.”

— Barack Obama

481. “The world is less violent than it has ever been.”

— Barack Obama

482. “What I was quickly discovering about the presidency was that no problem that landed on my desk, foreign or domestic, had a clean, 100 percent solution. If it had, someone else down the chain of command would have solved it already.”

— Barack Obama

483. “My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That’s still what drives me every single day.”

— Barack Obama

484. “Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day’s work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.”

— Barack Obama

485. “We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.”

— Barack Obama

486. “We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations.”

— Barack Obama

487. “Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts.”

— Barack Obama

488. “Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela – what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.”

— Barack Obama

489. “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”

— Barack Obama

490. “John McCain has not spoken about my Muslim faith.”

— Barack Obama

491. “What’s missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.”

— Barack Obama

492. “It’s very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.”

— Barack Obama

493. “Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as ‘the president who lost Iran,’”

— Barack Obama

494. “I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday’s energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow’s.”

— Barack Obama

495. “People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.”

— Barack Obama

496. “Do we care to match the reality of America to its ideals? If so, do we really believe that our notions of self-government and individual freedom, equality of opportunity and equality before the law, apply to everybody? Or are we instead committed, in practice if not in statute, to reserving those things for a privileged few?”

— Barack Obama

497. “My administration will be the most transparent in history.”

— Barack Obama

498. “I was impatient in those days, busy with work and unrealized plans, and prone to see other people as unnecessary distractions.”

— Barack Obama

499. “Nations are more successful when their women are successful.”

— Barack Obama

500. “Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

— Barack Obama