1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

Being gay or lesbian is not a choice.

I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

America will rise again. And hope will rise again.

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.

If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can’t just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been taken from us too soon.

We can’t wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won’t act, I will.