A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

— Barack Obama

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

— Barack Obama

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

— Barack Obama

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

— Barack Obama

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

— Barack Obama

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

— Barack Obama

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

— Barack Obama

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

— Barack Obama

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

— Barack Obama

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

— Barack Obama