Top 500 Barack Obama Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

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

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

— 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. “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

357. “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

358. “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

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

— Barack Obama

360. “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

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

— Barack Obama

363. “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

364. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

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

— Barack Obama

369. “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

370. “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

371. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Barack Obama

375. “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

376. “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

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

— Barack Obama

378. “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

379. “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

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

— Barack Obama

381. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

387. “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

388. “I’ve been to 57 states.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

390. “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

391. “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

392. “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

393. “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

394. “My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.”

— Barack Obama

395. “I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.”

— Barack Obama

396. “It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide.”

— Barack Obama

397. “I’ve been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I’ve spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.”

— Barack Obama

398. “Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What’s different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.”

— Barack Obama

399. “Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.”

— Barack Obama

400. “No one is pro-abortion.”

— Barack Obama