“Don't let your failures define you.” 

“The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.” 

“Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.” 

“It's in the misery of some unnamed slum that the next killer virus will emerge.” 

“I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.” 

“We’re never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we’re bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives—although that’s what we tell ourselves—but because we’re wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and speak impeccable English and yet have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger.” 

“This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.” 

“And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.

For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.” 

“We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” 

“We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.” 

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

“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.” 

“Five days a week, she came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English lessons for three hours before I left for school and she went to work.” 

“I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours."

Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.” 

“The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.” 

“I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic. ” 

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.” 

“Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land: enough! This moment, this election is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On Nov. 4, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough.” 

“To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.” 

“We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself...” 

“At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.” 

“You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.” 

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I believe we need a new kind of leadership, a leadership that puts the people front and center, not the president.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The game is still full of joy and the lessons learned from it stay with you . . . even though the game has changed, the old values still flow through it.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“That reminds me of the kind of politician who would chop down a tree, then stand on the stump and give a speech about conservation.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Unless we clear up our own house, the Republicans will clean up in the fall,”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Al Gore has run a strong campaign and I congratulate him, ... But we are smarter and better-prepared.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“That (strategy) was not in conflict with the way I have run my campaign, ... It shows respect for the voters, to point out that something is untrue.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“We should be better because of team speed, but it doesn't mean anything unless you use it.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will,”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Only those who have never left Washington have missed the lessons of the last decade,”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds, ... Athletes, in times of this kind of difficulty, can be important role models.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I think the Saints will go over real well in San Antonio, but I'm partial to San Antonio because I think it's a wonderful place and has a lot of things to offer.”

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I knew when I got into this race that it wouldn't be easy. Anything worth fighting for in life rarely is,”

A rejection of absolutism, in all its forms, may sometimes slip into moral relativism or even nihilism, an erosion of values that hold society together…” 

“But that’s part of what makes America wonderful, is we always had this nagging dissatisfaction that spurs us on. That’s how we ended up going west, that’s how we--“I’m tired of all these people back east; if I go west, there’s going to be my own land and I’m not going to have to put up with this nonsense, and I’m going to start my own thing, and I’ve got my homestead.” ...It is true, though, that that restlessness and that dissatisfaction which has helped us go to the moon and create the Internet and build the Transcontinental Railroad and build our land-grant colleges, that those things, born of dissatisfaction, we can very rapidly then take for granted and not tend to and not defend, and not understand how precious these things are.” 

“Sometimes you can’t worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go.” We” 

“I can see that my choices were never truly mine alone--and that is how it should be, that to assert otherwise is to chase after a sorry sort of freedom.” 

“Folks hear stories like that, they just stop trying to talk to these young cats out here. We start generalizing about ’em just like the white folks do. We see ’em hanging out, we head the other way. After a while, even the good kid starts realizing ain’t nobody out here gonna look out for him. So he figures he’s gonna have to look after himself. Bottom line, you got twelve-year-olds making their own damn rules.” Johnnie” 

I Like this quote I dislike this quote“But my convictions of where we are as a country and where we can go are so deep that I made the decision to take on the establishment and run.”