Remember When You Wondered, 'Can We?'

As we watch the TV,

Lindsay looks over at me with tears in her eyes and says,

'Our children will never know a world where a Black person can't be President.'






'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



'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.'
Barack Obama



Americans…still believe in an America where anything's possible -- they just don't think their leaders do.
Barack Obama



Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
Barack Obama














































If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
Barack Obama



The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama



















My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she’s not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that’s a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.
Barack Obama






















Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't, it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
Barack Obama