Barack Obama Quotes

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

Lobbying, in large part, is conducted to prevent change from happening.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.

I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.

I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change.

Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change, never, ever. My message is that things have to change and they have to change right now.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.