Quotes from Barack Obama

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.