Quotes from Barack Obama

If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

Our patience is not infinite. We're not willing to let this go on forever.

If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.

Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.