Quotes from Barack Obama

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

While we breathe, we will hope.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

I hope you don't listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.

My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.

My hope is Donald Trump makes things better. And if he does, we'll all benefit from it.

I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.

I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.

They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'

We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.