Top 500 Barack Obama Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I don’t want to make promises, not knowing what the situation’s going to be three or four years out.”

— Barack Obama

452. “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

453. “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

454. “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

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

— Barack Obama

456. “Being gay or lesbian is not a choice.”

— Barack Obama

457. “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

458. “Change has come to America.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

460. “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

461. “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

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

— Barack Obama

463. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

466. “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”

— Barack Obama

467. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

476. “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

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

— Barack Obama

478. “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

479. “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

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

— Barack Obama

481. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

485. “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

486. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

491. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

494. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

498. “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”

— Barack Obama

499. “There’s one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama