Barack Obama Quotes

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favorably.

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

I lost my first run for office, but I developed a great love for grassroots politics.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

I'm very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we've got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we've got to organize at the grassroots level.

No matter what the issues are, it has to be handled at the grassroots. When you take part in something, even though that movement may lose, the juices start flowing and you feel you count. You count. Well, that's pretty important.

What a grassroots party is about is people getting excited, getting involved in the local political process, saying, we want our candidate to run for office, we want him to run for office, and we're going to get involved and make sure that he or she wins.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.

The revolution starts at the bottom.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

Now technology gives you a chance to help organize. You don't have to wait for either the inefficiency or the corruption. You don't have to wait for government. You can actually self-organize and build institutions bottom up.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

I don't think top-down works in America.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

I've never seen the kind of enthusiasm at the grassroots that I see campaigning with or for Donald Trump.