Barack Obama Quotes

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

We rise and fall as one people, one nation.

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

I'm going to fight to bring us all together as Americans.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

I think our time should be spent on talking about those things that unite us as Americans and deliver for the American public. And I think that is something that is a better use of everyone's time, and this is going to further the cause of the American people a lot more than focusing on divisions.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Unity is Obama's theme.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.