President Barack Obama Quotes - On Hard Work, Success, Motivation And More
Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, and the first African American to serve in the office. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he won a second term in 2012.
Born in Honolulu in 1961, Barack Obama went on to become President of the Harvard Law Review and a U.S. senator representing Illinois. In 2008, he was elected President of the United States, becoming the first African-American commander-in-chief. He served two terms as the 44 president of the United States.
Obama, 56, arrived in Singapore on March 19—his first trip to the country since leaving office in January 2017. While local newspaper the Straits Times reported that he was there to speak at a private event for the Bank of Singapore, the former president tweeted on his first day in the country that he was "in Singapore with young people who are advocating for education, empowering young women, and getting involved all over Southeast Asia with a profoundly optimistic commitment to building the world they want to see."
- 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.
- If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
- We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
- I'm a warrior for the middle class.
- I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
- We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
- We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
