1,050 Quotes by Barack Obama

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.

Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.

The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.

Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.

There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there’s an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.