Different Quotes by Barack Obama

Campaigning is different from governing.

— Barack Obama

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

— Barack Obama

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a…

— Barack Obama

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

— Barack Obama

Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

— Barack Obama

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going…

— Barack Obama

What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who…

— Barack Obama

I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons…

— Barack Obama

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

— Barack Obama

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

— Barack Obama

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly…

— Barack Obama

The two inaugurations were different. The first inauguration I was thinking to myself, "Let's make sure I don't screw this up." I…

— Barack Obama

I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that…

— Barack Obama

Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that…

— Barack Obama

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to…

— Barack Obama

If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day.…

— Barack Obama

One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different…

— Barack Obama

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who…

— Barack Obama

Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can.…

— Barack Obama

These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot…

— Barack Obama

It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved -…

— Barack Obama

We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are…

— Barack Obama

We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health…

— Barack Obama

Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is…

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't…

— Barack Obama

We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

— Barack Obama

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

— Barack Obama

The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and…

— Barack Obama

Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet…

— Barack Obama

What I said to Donald Trump was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or passion during elections may be different than…

— Barack Obama

All of these different strands in me - the black, the white, the African - all of that has contributed directly to…

— Barack Obama

We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No…

— 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

As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice,…

— Barack Obama

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American…

— Barack Obama

If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your…

— Barack Obama

I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald…

— 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…

— Barack Obama

Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office…

— Barack Obama