Barack Obama Quotes

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

A new era of responsibility is here.

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

The principle issue in this election is whether or not you are prepared to do anything new.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

What did you do to change the world today?

To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.

We do not need more status quo.

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change, never, ever. My message is that things have to change and they have to change right now.

It's a very exciting time in the history of this country, to even see people responding to a different way of doing business and really wanting to make a change.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Hillary Clinton's message is old and tired. Her message is that things can't change. My message is that things have to change.

Fifteen years after the new dispensations started in South Africa, if one looks back, there are reasons to be positive and say we have achieved what we wanted to achieve, but there are also reasons for concern. Not everything turned out exactly as I would have liked it to turn out. On the positive side, we have a good constitution, there has been no effort to really amend the constitution and change the values and the principles contained therein and in our bill of rights.

It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.