Littles Quotes by Barack Obama
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Obama’s perspective on the little things underscores how incremental steps build lasting change. These 48 quotations offer a hopeful view that everyday gestures can ripple outward, shaping a better future.
![“If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/23a/barack-obama-17_facts_if-you-listen-to-the-rhetoric-it-is-so-o_1020615.jpg)
![“One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ab/barack-obama-17_abraham_one-of-the-things-that-you-learn-having_504252.jpg)
![“When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e9c/barack-obama-17_asking_when-you-ve-got-little-kids-and-you-re-t_284141.jpg)
![“If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60f/barack-obama-17_black_if-black-nationalism-could-create-a-stro_1426805.jpg)
![“Even when you go up ramp, and you think about [Franklin D. Roosevelt] wheeling himself up, you know, got a little cigarette holder in his mouth, and it, that, that awe that you feel, that reverence that you feel for the place never entirely leaves.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a7/barack-obama-17_awe_even-when-you-go-up-ramp-and-you-think-a_705826.jpg)
![“I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/33d/barack-obama-17_agency_i-can-document-this-past-week-of-preside_98484.jpg)
![“That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00d/barack-obama-17_black_that-is-another-theme-in-the-book-dreams_10185.jpg)
