1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

I’ve been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I’ve spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

You can’t always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.

Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

Good afternoon, everybody-ugh, Jesus, gimme a sec.

Mandela’s commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.

The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.