Barack Obama Quotes About Making A Difference

• Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Voice, Differences

• Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Money, Differences

• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Ideas, Voice

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

• It is important for us to understand that the way we are perceived in the world is going to make a difference, in terms of our capacity to get cooperation and root out terrorism. And one of the things that I intend to do as president is to restore America's standing in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Making A Difference, President

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Differences, Cynical

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference."

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Country, Son

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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