Barack Obama, born August 4, 1961, served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, becoming the first African American to hold the office. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, he began his career as a community organizer and civil rights attorney. His presidency is noted for the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. Post-presidency, he remains active through the Obama Foundation and continues to influence politics and global discourse on democracy and social justice.

Top 10 Quotes by Barack Obama

1. “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.”
— Barack Obama

2. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
— Barack Obama

3. “In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”
— Barack Obama

4. “We are the change we have been waiting for.”
— Barack Obama

5. “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
— Barack Obama

6. “Yes We Can!”
— Barack Obama

7. “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
— Barack Obama

8. “One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.”
— Barack Obama

9. “We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”
— Barack Obama

10. “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.”
— Barack Obama