Quotes from Barack Obama

What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new.

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

Democracy is hard work.

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.

I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in.