Barack Obama Quotes

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

Barack Obama

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I love Coco de Mer.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Love
  • I Love

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Challenge

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Day
  • Hurt

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Thought
  • Fight
  • Patience

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• I will not get very far with this attitude.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Attitude
  • Will
  • Far

• When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • You
  • Peace

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • World
  • God
  • Future

• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Problem
  • Solution

• I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Look

• I have been on a diet since 1962.

  

  Mary Quant

• When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Tired
  • Beat
  • Racing

• Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women