Top 500 Barack Obama Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.”

— Barack Obama

202. “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.”

— Barack Obama

203. “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.”

— Barack Obama

204. “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”

— Barack Obama

205. “We need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair...”

— Barack Obama

206. “Our environment is too important to neglect and it’s time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.”

— Barack Obama

207. “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.”

— Barack Obama

208. “California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.”

— Barack Obama

209. “A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode.”

— Barack Obama

210. “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

— Barack Obama

211. “With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.”

— Barack Obama

212. “Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.”

— Barack Obama

213. “I’m determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That’s part of the empathy. Empathy doesn’t just extend to cute little kids. You have to have empathy when you’re talking to some guy who doesn’t like black people.”

— Barack Obama

214. “Africa doesn’t need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.”

— Barack Obama

215. “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.”

— Barack Obama

216. “You like pie? I like pie.”

— Barack Obama

217. “It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.”

— Barack Obama

218. “We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”

— Barack Obama

219. “We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.”

— Barack Obama

220. “Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it.”

— Barack Obama

221. “You know, in college, I smoked a little pot, did a little blow.”

— Barack Obama

222. “Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.”

— Barack Obama

223. “Loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what’s right, and shake up the status quo.”

— Barack Obama

224. “I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit. And it’s that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now.”

— Barack Obama

225. “The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.”

— Barack Obama

226. “For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.”

— Barack Obama

227. “We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.”

— Barack Obama

228. “It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.”

— Barack Obama

229. “Part of America’s genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.”

— Barack Obama

230. “I think that the important point is we’ve got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.”

— Barack Obama

231. “I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.”

— Barack Obama

232. “Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.”

— Barack Obama

233. “I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.”

— Barack Obama

234. “Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.”

— Barack Obama

235. “There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there’s an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.”

— Barack Obama

236. “But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.”

— Barack Obama

237. “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation.”

— Barack Obama

238. “Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they’ll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?”

— Barack Obama

239. “If there’s even one thing we can do – even one life we can save – we have an obligation to try.”

— Barack Obama

240. “If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.”

— Barack Obama

241. “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”

— Barack Obama

242. “My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.”

— Barack Obama

243. “Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.”

— Barack Obama

244. “Become a teacher. Your country needs you.”

— Barack Obama

245. “Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.”

— Barack Obama

246. “I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.”

— Barack Obama

247. “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.”

— Barack Obama

248. “More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we’ve always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.”

— Barack Obama

249. “Our patience is not infinite. We’re not willing to let this go on forever.”

— Barack Obama

250. “It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!”

— Barack Obama