Barack Obama Quotes

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

I know that my race must change.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

Sometimes people want change just to change. It doesn't mean it's going to be better.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men, let's make sure we keep it that way. I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come

There is no history of how bad became better.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change