Barack Obama Quotes

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.

I'm still the same. That's why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Textbooks must be constant over many years for students to trust the system. But if we say something is true today and deny it tomorrow, students will lose faith in us. Consistency is at a premium.

I hope you keep them.

We just stuck to what we did best. Maybe that's why people plug into us and go 'They never change.' We're reliable. A bit like old shoes.

I like people who are predictable.

I'm a loyal person, man, and people who have been good to me in my life, I don't forget and I stand by them.

New things are always better than old things.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

Trust me. I haven't been wrong yet.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

Everything good needs replacing

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.