Barack Obama quotes

Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, is renowned for his charismatic leadership and progressive vision. Born in Hawaii, Obama's journey from a community organizer to the Oval Office inspired millions. As President, he prioritized healthcare reform, climate change initiatives, and economic recovery. Obama's accomplishments include the Affordable Care Act, the Paris Agreement, and revitalizing the economy post the Great Recession. Besides politics, Obama is also an accomplished author, with his memoir "A Promised Land" receiving critical acclaim. His legacy as America's first African-American president continues to resonate globally. Explore more about Barack Obama's transformative tenure and his dedication to creating a better future.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

- Barack Obama

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.

- Barack Obama

You can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.

- Barack Obama

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

- Barack Obama

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

- Barack Obama

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

- Barack Obama

The role of citizen in a democracy does not end with your vote.

- Barack Obama

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

- Barack Obama

Some things are beyond my control. For example, this whole controversy about Jay-Z going to Cuba – it’s unbelievable! I’ve got 99 problems, now Jay-Z is one.

- Barack Obama

Now, when you first become president, one of the questions people ask you is, what’s really going on in Area 51? … oh, I think I just became the first president to ever publicly mention Area 51… how’s that?

- Barack Obama

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

- Barack Obama

It’s important to realise I was actually black before the election.

- Barack Obama

In the end, this is what this election’s about – do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

- Barack Obama

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

- Barack Obama

Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us.

- Barack Obama

Focussing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential.

- Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

- Barack Obama

Change doesn’t come from Washington; change comes to Washington.

- Barack Obama

Americans still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

- Barack Obama

Lincoln – they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart…

- Barack Obama

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

- Barack Obama

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

- Barack Obama

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

- Barack Obama

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

- Barack Obama

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

- Barack Obama

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

- Barack Obama

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

- Barack Obama

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

- Barack Obama

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

- Barack Obama

No one is pro-abortion.

- Barack Obama