Barack Obama Quotes

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

Governments never lead; they follow progress

Change America—Change the World

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.

I'm running because we need change.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

Social change comes through people.

There are reformers in every country.

My duty is to raise the consciousness of the American people.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

America needs to be challenged.

There is nobody on this planet who was ever liberated by an athlete or an entertainer.

I’m in politics to speak up for a Canada that takes risks, that stands up for what’s right. A Canada that leads.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

If people come out of an election and everyone’s despairing, everyone’s in a collective civic funk, we don’t get anything done. Simply reminding people of how bad things are and what you lost, nobody’s moved by that. People are moved by the sense of possiblity, a sense of hope.