Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Yes We Can!
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody’s religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.
What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
Change we need.
Focusing 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.
It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart – not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.