Top 500 Barack Obama Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism.”

— Barack Obama

302. “That’s the good thing about being President – I can do whatever I want.”

— Barack Obama

303. “It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.”

— Barack Obama

304. “While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.”

— Barack Obama

305. “In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.”

— Barack Obama

306. “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”

— Barack Obama

307. “We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.”

— Barack Obama

308. “When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.”

— Barack Obama

309. “Iran won’t pursue nuclear weapons because ‘it’s contrary to their faith.’”

— Barack Obama

310. “We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.”

— Barack Obama

311. “I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.”

— Barack Obama

312. “Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.”

— Barack Obama

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313. “We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year.”

— Barack Obama

314. “When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they’re not protesting. They’re not making a statement. They’re stealing. When they burn down a building, they’re committing arson.”

— Barack Obama

315. “The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.”

— Barack Obama

316. “Good afternoon, everybody-ugh, Jesus, gimme a sec.”

— Barack Obama

317. “Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.”

— Barack Obama

318. “In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.”

— Barack Obama

319. “Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.”

— Barack Obama

320. “The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.”

— Barack Obama

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321. “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

— Barack Obama

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322. “I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong believer that there are certain common goods – our air, our water, making sure that people are safe – that require to have some regulation.”

— Barack Obama

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323. “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter.”

— Barack Obama

324. “I mean, if you think about – if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”

— Barack Obama

325. “What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”

— Barack Obama

326. “That’s the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we’ve already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.”

— Barack Obama

327. “Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.”

— Barack Obama

328. “I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels.”

— Barack Obama

329. “I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and – and rational argument.”

— Barack Obama

330. “Let us join together across denominations, religions and cultures to make a habit of empathy and reach out to those most in need. To share the blessings we enjoy and to advance the cause of peace in all corners of our world.”

— Barack Obama

331. “Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.”

— Barack Obama

332. “Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.”

— Barack Obama

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333. “For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.”

— Barack Obama

334. “When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow – everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.”

— Barack Obama

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335. “The world is complicated and full of grays, but there’s still truth there to be found.”

— Barack Obama

336. “Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what’s in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.”

— Barack Obama

337. “If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.”

— Barack Obama

338. “When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free.”

— Barack Obama

339. “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.”

— Barack Obama

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340. “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”

— Barack Obama

341. “I just miss – I miss being anonymous.”

— Barack Obama

342. “The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.”

— Barack Obama

343. “Sometimes you can’t worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go.” We.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

345. “I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I’m playing golf.”

— Barack Obama

346. “America will rise again. And hope will rise again.”

— Barack Obama

347. “I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second.”

— Barack Obama

348. “The soldier ’s courage and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.”

— Barack Obama

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349. “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation – at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”

— Barack Obama

350. “We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.”

— Barack Obama

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