Barack Obama Quotes

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Only force would produce social change.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

My whole deal is reforming, changing, shaking up Washington. It sure needs it.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

We will send a petition to Washington with boots on.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Activists set the agenda for the practitioners.

We can’t change our government unless we change the people who run it.