1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

It's in the misery of some unnamed slum that the next killer virus will emerge.

But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation.

What an amazing gift to help people, not just yourself.

If people can learn to hate they can learn to love.

It is a fact that racial discrimination still exists in the United States and in South America.

Madiba reminds that democracy is more than just elections.

Values are faithfully applied to the facts before us, while ideology overrides whatever facts call theory into question.

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort.