Quotes from Barack Obama

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

We shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

Men have to take more responsibility. Men have to intervene

One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.