1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.

When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

In some ways the soviets simplified who the enemy was”, Havel said, “Today autocrats are more sophisticated, they stand for election while slowly undermining institutions that make democracy possible. They champion free markets while engaging with the same corruption cronyism and exploitation that existed in the past".

the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms...

For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

What binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

It was as if, because of the very strangeness of my heritage and the worlds I straddled, I was from everywhere and nowhere at once, a combination of ill-fitting parts, like a platypus or some imaginary beast, confined to a fragile habitat, unsure of where I belonged. And I sensed, without fully understanding why or how, that unless I could stitch my life together and situate myself along some firm axis, I might end up in some basic way living my life alone.

It's hard, in retrospect, to understand why you did something stupid. I don’tmean the small stuff—ruining your favorite tie because you tried to eat soup inthe car or throwing out your back because you got talked into playing tacklefootball on Thanksgiving. I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerabledeliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it,and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer.

It's hard, in retrospect, to understand why you did something stupid. I don’t mean the small stuff—ruining your favorite tie because you tried to eat soup in the car or throwing out your back because you got talked into playing tackle football on Thanksgiving. I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer