Top 500 Barack Obama Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law.”

— Barack Obama

352. “We are a people of improbable hope.”

— Barack Obama

353. “There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.”

— Barack Obama

354. “The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.”

— Barack Obama

355. “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.”

— Barack Obama

356. “Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.”

— Barack Obama

357. “I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.”

— Barack Obama

358. “I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.”

— Barack Obama

359. “If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

— Barack Obama

360. “America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.”

— Barack Obama

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361. “To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.”

— Barack Obama

362. “My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.”

— Barack Obama

363. “Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.”

— Barack Obama

364. “So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.”

— Barack Obama

365. “America’s strong bonds with Israel are well known – this bond is unbreakable.”

— Barack Obama

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366. “A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”

— Barack Obama

367. “Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.”

— Barack Obama

368. “The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there’s no excuse for that, that’s not a statement, that’s not politics, that’s not activism, it’s just criminal behavior.”

— Barack Obama

369. “Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.”

— Barack Obama

370. “Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security.”

— Barack Obama

371. “The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

373. “I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That’s what I take with my morning tea.”

— Barack Obama

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374. “We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.”

— Barack Obama

375. “When people see opportunity, when they have a sense of control of their own destiny, then they’re less vulnerable to the propaganda and twisted ideologies that have been attracting young people – particularly being turbocharged through social media.”

— Barack Obama

376. “Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it’s becoming more tolerant as a consequence there’s more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise.”

— Barack Obama

377. “Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.”

— Barack Obama

378. “As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.”

— Barack Obama

379. “Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up...”

— Barack Obama

380. “My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.”

— Barack Obama

381. “We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged aren’t getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who has struggled more.”

— Barack Obama

382. “I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago.”

— Barack Obama

383. “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

384. “That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.”

— Barack Obama

385. “I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.”

— Barack Obama

386. “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

387. “There is no individual salvation without collective salvation.”

— Barack Obama

388. “Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there.”

— Barack Obama

389. “The absence of hope can rot a society from within.”

— Barack Obama

390. “If you don’t have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.”

— Barack Obama

391. “We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.”

— Barack Obama

392. “The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women.”

— Barack Obama

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393. “It’s not a choice between our environment and our economy; it’s a choice between prosperity and decline.”

— Barack Obama

394. “There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.”

— Barack Obama

395. “I’ve been to 57 states.”

— Barack Obama

396. “America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don’t want that future, uh, for my children.”

— Barack Obama

397. “Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.”

— Barack Obama

398. “We know we can’t stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.”

— Barack Obama

399. “My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another’s heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.”

— Barack Obama

400. “I have nothing to hide, I enjoy being myself. I’m not going to change who I am just because it’s Halloween.”

— Barack Obama