Barack Obama Quotes

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

I dislike both of [candidates] but there's obviously no choice in the election - if you're concerned about the future of anything, you need to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

I have decided not to run for president.

There are always choices in politics.

To govern is to chose.

We live in a world of competing sorrows ... to govern is to choose.

[In a political contest] If you are faced with the lesser of two evils, you have the evil of two lesser.

Governing is about selecting.

Making choices is what the Presidency is about.

Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

I recommend voting Blue and White, but I respect any decision.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

The American people get to express themselves, and in the ways that they choose. But I have got to tell you, I - this convention, I have sensed a tremendous amount of energy, a tremendous amount of unity, not around the personalities, but around the choice that we face in the fall.

All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.

I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.