Barack Obama quotes

Born 1961 · Honolulu, HI

• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

• There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.

• Now, this is where I learned that change only happens when ordinary people get involved and they get engaged and they come together to demand it.

• Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

• For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.

• Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.