Top 500 Barack Obama Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “This is our first task-caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.”

— Barack Obama

252. “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian – for me – for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

254. “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

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

— Barack Obama

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

259. “Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

262. “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

263. “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

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264. “We will finish the race.”

— Barack Obama

265. “It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.”

— Barack Obama

266. “What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.”

— Barack Obama

267. “It’s important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it’s inconvenient, especially when it’s inconvenient.”

— Barack Obama

268. “The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.”

— Barack Obama

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269. “The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology.”

— Barack Obama

270. “Solyndra is a great investment in our future.”

— Barack Obama

271. “I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It’s not a good use of our resources.”

— Barack Obama

272. “There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody’s presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread – and – and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.”

— Barack Obama

273. “I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.”

— Barack Obama

274. “To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.”

— Barack Obama

275. “We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we’re going to hit singles.”

— Barack Obama

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276. “I can’t really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.”

— Barack Obama

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277. “The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”

— Barack Obama

278. “We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions.”

— Barack Obama

279. “I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.”

— Barack Obama

280. “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

— Barack Obama

281. “Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.”

— Barack Obama

282. “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”

— Barack Obama

283. “I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.”

— Barack Obama

284. “America is an unlikely place – a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it’s now your turn to help keep it this way.”

— Barack Obama

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285. “Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.”

— Barack Obama

286. “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.”

— Barack Obama

287. “Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been taken from us too soon.”

— Barack Obama

288. “Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.”

— Barack Obama

289. “Maybe you could be a great writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write that English paper – that English class paper that’s assigned to you.”

— Barack Obama

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290. “That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.”

— Barack Obama

291. “If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can’t just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community.”

— Barack Obama

292. “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”

— Barack Obama

293. “What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It’s hard to empathize with people who have different values than you.”

— Barack Obama

294. “The world doesn’t just revolve around you. There’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.”

— Barack Obama

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295. “The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.”

— Barack Obama

296. “We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty.”

— Barack Obama

297. “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.”

— Barack Obama

298. “If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.”

— Barack Obama

299. “Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let’s move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.”

— Barack Obama

300. “The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we’re asked to be the sheriff.”

— Barack Obama