1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

Just talk. Yet what concerned me wasn't the damage loose talk caused efforts...,or the emotional pain it caused others. It was the distance between our talk and our action, the effect it was having on us as individuals and as a people.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

Setiap strategi untuk mengurangi kemiskinan antargenerasi harus dipusatkan pada pekerjaan, bukan pada kesejahteraan--bukan hanya karena pekerjaan itu memberikan kebebasan dan pendapatan, melainkan juga karena pekerjaan itu mendatangkan kedisiplinan, struktur, harga diri, dan kesempatan untuk berkembang dalam kehidupan masyarakat.

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.