About Barack Obama

44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner. (b. 1961)

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More from Barack Obama

• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.Speech on Super Tuesday night (2008)
• Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.Iowa Caucus victory speech (2008)
• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself.Knox College Commencement Address (2005)
• It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.Knox College Commencement Address (2005)
• Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.New Hampshire primary night speech (2008)
• Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.Campaign rally speech (2008)

More quotes on leadership

• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.George Washington
• Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.George Washington
• It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.George Washington
• The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.Thomas Jefferson
• We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.Theodore Roosevelt
• Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance.Franklin D. Roosevelt

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