Barack Obama Quotes

I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and the American people.

I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

We all make mistakes and sometimes you say things and you really don't realize what you're saying at that moment.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.

I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

Avoid what will require an apology.