Barack Obama Quotes

Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.

Ohio's doing what it can do, but I wish they'd get their act together in Washington.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

There's a can't-do attitude in this town [Washington DC] that I haven't seen anywhere else ... It's like running through a field of marshmallows in terms of getting anything done.

Washington DC is a city of motion, not action.

If someone really wanted to end Medicare, they wouldn't propose a reform: they would do nothing.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

Do something, Congress. Do anything.

why are we so monumentally slow?

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

If Hillary Clinton is president of the United States, nothing is going to happen. It's just going to be talk.

One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you in motion but gets you nowhere

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.