Barack Obama Quotes

As an MP, my first duty is to act in the national interest, regardless of party affiliation.

Politics is not a profession, it is a service. I want to keep working more for the Nation not because of the designation, but because people of India are my family.

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today's problems as an excuse for inaction, rhyme or rhetoric that does not meet the challenges before us.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen.

Citizen statesmanship recognizes legitimate local or special needs, but it places the national interest first.

I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.

The business of serving the American people is a tough, and sometimes thankless task.

Some people might have different ideas about what progress looks like, and some are cynical and place their short-term political interests ahead of what is good for our country. But many of them aren't cynical and try hard to do their best.

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

The RBI governor post is very high in the Warrant of Precedence and requires a patriotic and unconditional commitment to our nation.

South Africa must come first in everything we do.

In Washington, it's often easy to go to work, get lost in the process, and forget why we're here every day. The reason we're here is to serve the American people.

We are a party which believes that we work in the national interest, not just to please my opposition.

The President should be focused on making the lives of Americans better. It's what he promised. It's what the country needs.

I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged, that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recognizes. But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state and did an outstanding job, and no one has suggested that in some ways, as a consequence of how she handled emails, that that detracted from her excellent ability to carry out her duties.

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

So fully am I impressed with the vast importance and necessity of attaining what will be the object of my motion this night, that if, during the almost forty years that I have had the honour of a seat in parliament, I had been so fortunate as to accomplish that, and that only, I should think I had done enough, and could retire from public life with comfort, and the conscious satisfaction, that I had done my duty.

I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!

It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay.

I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.