While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm convinced we're going to rebuild not only the auto industry, but the economy better and stronger than before. And at its… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve -… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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