Individual Quotes by Barack Obama

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

— Barack Obama

There is no individual salvation without collective salvation

— Barack Obama

When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

— Barack Obama

Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden.

— Barack Obama

If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we…

— Barack Obama

When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When…

— Barack Obama

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual…

— Barack Obama

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term.…

— Barack Obama

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that…

— Barack Obama

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every…

— Barack Obama

We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that Senator [Marco] Rubio put forward, I…

— Barack Obama

Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values…

— Barack Obama

I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We are greater than…

— Barack Obama

I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater…

— Barack Obama

In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and…

— Barack Obama

One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot…

— Barack Obama

The United States is imposing sanctions on individuals and companies working to advance Iran's ballistic missile program, and we are going to…

— Barack Obama

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will…

— Barack Obama

We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be…

— Barack Obama

We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because…

— Barack Obama

These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The…

— 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

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the…

— 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

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large…

— Barack Obama

On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective…

— Barack Obama

Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those…

— Barack Obama

It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our…

— Barack Obama

For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to…

— 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

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's…

— Barack Obama

We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat…

— Barack Obama

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off…

— Barack Obama

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and…

— Barack Obama

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes…

— Barack Obama

I do think that saving the economy was a pretty big deal. We did a lot of stuff early that ended up…

— Barack Obama

Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask…

— Barack Obama