About Barack Obama

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

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• 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)
• I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.Farewell Address (2017)

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• Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.Abraham Lincoln
• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.Theodore Roosevelt
• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.Theodore Roosevelt
• It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.Theodore Roosevelt
• I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.Theodore Roosevelt
• It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.Franklin D. Roosevelt

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