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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

354. “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

355. “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

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

— Barack Obama

357. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

360. “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

361. “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

362. “We will finish the race.”

— Barack Obama

363. “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

364. “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

365. “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

366. “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

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

— Barack Obama

368. “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

369. “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

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

— Barack Obama

371. “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

372. “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

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

376. “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

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

— Barack Obama

378. “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

379. “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

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

— Barack Obama

381. “I’ve been to 57 states.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

385. “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

386. “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

387. “We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.”

— Barack Obama

388. “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

389. “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

390. “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

391. “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

392. “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

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

— Barack Obama

394. “No one is pro-abortion.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

396. “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

397. “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

398. “Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we’re reminded that all we have is each other.”

— Barack Obama

399. “We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.”

— Barack Obama

400. “Obama’s response when asked to define sin: “Being out of alignment with my values.””

— Barack Obama