Quotes from Barack Obama

Conservative or liberal, we are all constitutionalists.

The audacity of hope! I still remember my grandmother, singing in the house, 'There's a bright side somewhere Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ don't rest till you find it Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦.'" "That's right!" "The audacity of hope!

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.

The people back home, they didn't even know anyone else who had ridden in an airplane before. So they expected everything from him. 'Ah, Barack, you are a big shot now. You should give me something. You should help me.' Always these pressures from family. And he couldn't say no, he was so generous. You

I don't worry about the survival of the novel. We're a storytelling species.

Once I found an issue enough people cared about, I could take them into action. With enough actions, I could start to build power. Issues

America has not the option as to whether it will or it will not play a great part in the world," Roosevelt would argue. "It must play a great part. All that it can decide is whether it will play that part well or badly.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

The trick is not caring that it hurts.

In few other professions are you required, each and every day, to weigh so many competing claims—between different sets of constituents, between the interests of your state and the interests of the nation, between party loyalty and your own sense of independence, between the value of service and obligations to your family. There is a constant danger, in the cacophony of voices, that a politician loses his moral bearings and finds himself entirely steered by the winds of public opinion.

Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.

inexhaustible...our capacity to exempt from mercy those who look different or pray to a different God.