Barack Obama

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.

Barack Obama

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Barack Obama

What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.

Barack Obama

While we breathe, we will hope.

Barack Obama

Words do inspire.

Barack Obama

You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.

Barack Obama

You can’t rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama

You’re not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

Barack Obama

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.

Barack Obama

A healthy, dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It’s what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

Barack Obama