Barack Obama Quotes

Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The youth is the hope of our future.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

It is not enough to look backwards with pride, justified as that pride may be. We must look forward with hope and confidence, too.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

I still have a dream.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama. He didn't win because he was black - people voted for him because he had a plan and because he talked sense and because you believed him.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; in enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not abandon it to his enemy.

Our task is to help replace ... despair with opportunity.

Take actions that will give people hope.