Barack Obama Quotes (181 Quotes)

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

Sooner or later, politics catches up with the Supreme Court. If Democrats are consistently losing elections, then our views and our values will be less represented on the court.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

These funding cuts will be particularly devastating to communities in Southern Illinois where Byrne grants pay for a large percentage of crucial staff and infrastructure, ... I hope that today the Senate will do the right thing and make sure our law enforcement officials have the resources that they need to keep us safe.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

Whoever was in charge of planning was so detached from the realities of inner city life in New Orleans ... that they couldn't conceive of the notion that they couldn't load up their SUV's, put 100 worth of gas in there, put some sparkling water and drive off to a hotel and check in with a credit card,

In cities and towns all across America it turns out that people pay for their own lunches and their own dinners. People who make far less than we do.

I would like to see him (Bush) reach out to a broader circle of leadership in the African-American community and indicate that what he saw woke him up,

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

We can't accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5 percent cuts in food stamps or 5 percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the poor are being burdened,

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

The knee-jerk unbending and what I consider to be unfair attacks on Sen. Leahy's motives were unjustified,

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

But they sense ... that with just a change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, ... They know we can do better. And they want that choice.

You can't fight a war in Iraq that's costing upwards of 200 billion and rebuild New Orleans and try to deal with all of the other domestic needs that we have and then cut taxes for the wealthiest 1 of Americans, ... Face the Nation.

I think his legacy can be seen in the African-Americans who have achieved success in corporate board rooms, in starting businesses, I think that my own success as U.S. Senator might not be possible had it not been for the shift in peoples' perceptions about what African-Americans could accomplish in this country,

What's your name, sweetie You look so pretty, ... You made this heart, and you decided to give it to Bill Clinton, didn't you

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Even if current rules are enforced, there are too many opportunities with lobbyists to influence policy in ways that hurt ordinary citizens.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

That solves about 95 percent of the cases but the cases that get to the Supreme Court are the five percent that aren't easily answered and that's where you fall back on judgment and perspective,

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.