Ability Quotes by Barack Obama

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

— Barack Obama

Your ability to let go is part of the duty that you have.

— Barack Obama

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

— Barack Obama

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we…

— Barack Obama

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military…

— Barack Obama

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot…

— Barack Obama

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents…

— Barack Obama

I'M ASKING YOU TO BELIEVE... not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington... I'm asking you to believe…

— Barack Obama

Just listen to what Mr. [Donald] Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel…

— Barack Obama

Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier…

— Barack Obama

I would have to...investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether…

— Barack Obama

In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should…

— Barack Obama

But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English,…

— Barack Obama

I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a…

— Barack Obama

My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had…

— Barack Obama

As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as…

— Barack Obama

I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking…

— Barack Obama

The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability…

— Barack Obama

In your generation, everybody is constantly bombarded with all kinds of different input from different cultures, and that's a strength, that's a…

— Barack Obama

The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach…

— Barack Obama

For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an…

— Barack Obama

Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have…

— Barack Obama

I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to…

— Barack Obama

What the American people hope -– what they deserve -– is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our…

— Barack Obama

Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of…

— Barack Obama

I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged,…

— Barack Obama

To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the…

— Barack Obama

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

— Barack Obama

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up…

— Barack Obama

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man…

— Barack Obama

We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to…

— Barack Obama

In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness…

— Barack Obama

True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The…

— Barack Obama

The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox…

— Barack Obama

One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked…

— Barack Obama

For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your…

— Barack Obama

Stamina. There is a greater physical element to this job than you would think, just being able to grind it out. And…

— Barack Obama

In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid…

— Barack Obama

I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view…

— Barack Obama

[Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are…

— Barack Obama