1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant

As I chewed on the gooey popcorn, looking out at the lake, calm and turquoise now, I tried to recall a more contented moment

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as easily lead to the cowardice of McCarthyism as to the heroics of World War II. Men who were both dangerous and promising precisely because of their fundamental innocence; men prone, in the end, to disappointment.

You might be locked into a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.