Quotes by Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I came here to PUT FORWARD IDEAS...
...but I also came here TO LISTEN...
...and NOT to LECTURE.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our Founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit.  And it’s that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now.

As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.

It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.

I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for 221 years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

America is not and never has been just a collection of red states and blue states, but rather the UNITED STATES.