Barack Obama Quotes

One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The best way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is a verifiable, tough agreement. A military solution will not fix it. It would temporarily slow down an Iranian nuclear program but it will not eliminate it.

I think the bigger problem is nobody fully appreciates… is the degree to which we really underwrite the world order. Almost everything – every multilateral initiative function, norm, policy out there, it’s underwritten by us.

You lose people with ‘snappy’ slogans like ‘defund the police’.

We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.

He [Vladimir Putin] was always ruthless. You witness what he did in Chechnya; he had no qualms about crushing those who he considers a threat. That’s not new. For him to bet the farm in this way, I would not have necessarily predicted from him five years ago.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

We know we can’t stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

It’s not a choice between our environment and our economy; it’s a choice between prosperity and decline.