Ideas Quotes by Barack Obama

[The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally.

— Barack Obama

Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.

— Barack Obama

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

— Barack Obama

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

— Barack Obama

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for…

— Barack Obama

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast,…

— Barack Obama

When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of…

— Barack Obama

We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for…

— Barack Obama

But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young…

— Barack Obama

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

— Barack Obama

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your…

— Barack Obama

If you're 54 or 55, you might want to listen because this will affect you. The idea, which was originally presented by…

— Barack Obama

Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now,…

— Barack Obama

What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two…

— Barack Obama

When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going…

— Barack Obama

That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy,…

— Barack Obama

As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and…

— Barack Obama

I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He's been assuming a…

— Barack Obama

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need…

— Barack Obama

We're still fighting to make sure that basic anti-discrimination laws are enforced, not just at the federal level, by the way, but…

— Barack Obama

In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've…

— Barack Obama

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a…

— Barack Obama

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That…

— Barack Obama

One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each…

— Barack Obama

Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also…

— Barack Obama

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists…

— Barack Obama

The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us…

— Barack Obama

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with…

— Barack Obama

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as…

— Barack Obama

There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president.

— Barack Obama

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

— Barack Obama

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right…

— Barack Obama

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future…

— Barack Obama

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are…

— Barack Obama

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

— Barack Obama

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time…

— Barack Obama

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too,…

— Barack Obama

[ William Ayers] is an example of what I'm talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a…

— Barack Obama

I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we…

— Barack Obama

The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our…

— Barack Obama