1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

It’s important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it’s inconvenient, especially when it’s inconvenient.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

Part of America’s genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

The soldier ’s courage and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

Together, we’re going to finish the job we started.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet – it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.