Barack Obama Quotes

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

That man in the White House

I don't particularly want to be in the White House.

Who knows? Maybe someday I'll be living in the White House.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it's unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents.

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.

Some day I shall be President.

The press conference is as much a White House fixture as the cabinet meeting.

I left the White House but I’m still here.

A Senate seat is a terrible thing to waste.

You don't make new friends in the White House.

You are the only man in history to every use the Presidency as a stepping stone to greatness.

Descartes commanded the future from his study more than Napoleon from the throne.

I promise you the country would be in real trouble if I were really in the White House.

There is something wrong with the way in which we make our decisions. The Government listen too much to the pollsters and the party managers. The trouble is that they are not even very good at politics, and they are entering too much into policy decisions. As a result, there is too much short-termism, too much reacting to events, and not enough shaping of events. We give the impression of being in office but not in power. Far too many important decisions are made for 36 hours' publicity.

A man don't no more than get into the White House and learn where the Ice Box is than he has to get out again, then he is never any good for hard work again.

The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.

Anything can happen when people run for office.

The presidency of the United States is an incredible thing. You have an ability to effectuate change at the highest level.