Barack Obama Quotes

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

Let the path be open to talent.

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

The supreme test of a democracy is the measure of equality of opportunity that it affords to its citizens to rise to the highest point of authority and position.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

This is one country. It has become that way because all people who have come here had an equal right to develop their talent.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.

We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.

I want my kids to grow up in a world where everybody gets a fair shot.

This is America. In our country it doesn't matter a lick where you are from, it only matters where you're going.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.