Barack Obama

"The work of change requires sacrifice."

"We believe that all people are created equal."

"I'm asking you to take a chance on hope."

"The future is not something that happens to us. It is something we create."

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for."

"Democracy in a nation of 300 million people is not a light switch that we turn on and off."

"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."

"I have never been more hopeful about our future than I am today."

"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America. There's a United States of America."

"The ability to learn is the most important tool you have."

"We cannot succeed when half of our population is left behind."

"Everybody has been hurt. Everybody has family issues. The fact is you've got to move forward."

"You have to make a choice to take the first step, and the first step will lead to the second step."

"Nothing in life worth doing is easy."

"Change is never easy, but always possible."

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something."

"Our stories give us the texture of our lives. They give us the ability to make sense of the world."

"I think the American people understand that we have more work to do."

"We are not as divided as our politics suggests."

"The strongest democracies are built from the ground up."

"Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses creating jobs."

"We need to strive for humility and avoid the pitfalls of tribalism."

"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice."

"Faith is not about closing your eyes, it's about opening your heart."

"Our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation."

"The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works."

"Peace is not just the absence of war; it is the presence of justice."

"Time is passing. Still we live as though there were endless time ahead of us."

"Perseverance is not just the willingness to work hard. It is the ability to feel defeated and still push forward."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. We are made for much more than that."