Obama Speeches Quotes

#1. My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.

Dana White

#2. When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

Paula Poundstone

#3. Victor Hugo stopped talking and everybody went to bed.

Adele Hugo

#4. Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.

T. Rafael Cimino

#5. A new report just came out that says President Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in more speeches than President Bush did. Can you believe that? Still, neither has used the phrase 'Oh God, oh God,' more than President Clinton.

Conan O'Brien

#6. My sievelike mind didn't want to lock away dates and details; it wanted to float and meander. If I mixed all those facts and these up with a little gelatine and egg white, I wondered, would they stick together better?

Julia Child

#7. President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'

Jimmy Fallon

#8. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

#9. It suggests that however innovative Obama's speeches and Lin's show might seem, they are, in fact, traditional. They don't reinvent the American character, they renew it.

Jeremy McCarter

#10. In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.

Elliott Abrams

#11. It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face!

Michelle Obama

#12. An artist is like a handicap
he needs his art to carry himself.

Yarro Rai

#13. Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Dee Dee Myers

#14. Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

Jon Favreau

#15. The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

Nancy Pearl

#16. Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

Lucy Powell

#17. There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.

Nancy Werlin

#18. The great thing about best friends is that they know you really well. And the terrible thing about best friends is that they know YOU really well.

Rachel Hawkins

#19. With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.

David Limbaugh

#20. In several speeches and interviews, Donald Trump has brought up his book 'The Art of the Deal,' and said that Obama would have negotiated a better deal with Iran if he had read it. It got even more awkward for Obama when Iran was like, 'It worked for us - you guys got screwed!'

Jimmy Fallon

#21. There are peculiars all over the world," she said, "though our numbers are much diminished from what they once were.

Ransom Riggs

#22. Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted.

Barack Obama

#23. At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.

Robert Ferrigno

#24. If a person is Silent it doesn't mean he doesn't have to say anything, but It means Life has taught Him some Lessons which has made Him Silent..!

Nutan Bajracharya

#25. We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama came out against lunatics with guns, she gave the rebuttal.

Bill Maher

#26. Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")

August Derleth

#27. I think Michigan and the people of Michigan know - really, they know that I'm going to protect them. They're great people.

Donald Trump

#28. Have you ever asked yourself whether you'd rather fly or be invisible?

Claire Messud

#29. Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love

Sri Chinmoy

#30. Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate ... He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh ... Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.

Ezra Klein

#31. I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

Tim O'Brien