We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
BARACK OBAMAWe don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
BARACK OBAMAI think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
BARACK OBAMAA lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
BARACK OBAMAI think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
BARACK OBAMAI wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
BARACK OBAMAI wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
BARACK OBAMAWhen ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
BARACK OBAMAThe real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
BARACK OBAMAFind somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
BARACK OBAMANo, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
BARACK OBAMAIt should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
BARACK OBAMAThe future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
BARACK OBAMAIt’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
BARACK OBAMAHope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
BARACK OBAMAFocusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
BARACK OBAMAIt is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
BARACK OBAMA