Barack Obama

A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Barack Obama

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.

Barack Obama

As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

Barack Obama

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference.

Barack Obama

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

Barack Obama

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

Barack Obama

Everything is organized. If something is broken, I fix it. If something goes wrong, it’s my own fault. If I have it, I send money to the family, and they can do with it what they want, and I won’t depend on them, and they won’t depend on me.

Barack Obama

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Barack Obama

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

Barack Obama