Barack Obama Quotes About Waiting

• There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.

  Barack Obama

  Keys, Hands, Car

  "The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences". Interview with Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. December 17, 2014.

• 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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Hope

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

• From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I've been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?

  Barack Obama

  Simple, America, Long

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

• We are the change we have been waiting for.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Carpe Diem, Waiting

  "Commentary: Obama's 'Yes we can' theme needs second act" by Alex Castellanos, www.cnn.com. September 16, 2008.

• Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Equal Pay, Feminist

  "28 Famous Men Who Prove You Don’t Need To Be A Woman To Be A Feminist" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2014.

• ...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).

  Barack Obama

  Mother, School, Islands

• I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

  Barack Obama

  Office, Waiting, Debt

  "Obama fires up House Democrats to help push through stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2009.

• I have to say that my kids, like every child in America, is completely absorbed with Harry Potter. And so, I have gotten sucked into it, too; I can't wait for the next one to come out. I am trying to figure out what happens with Harry and Voldemort. So we have been reading that.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Reading, Kids

• In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Blue, Appreciate

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• That may prevent us from getting a deal done, It is there to be had. Whether ultimately Iran can seize that opportunity - we will have to wait and see, but it is not for lack of trying on our part.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Iran, Waiting

• When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Struggle

  "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. January 31, 2007.

• We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Waiting, Congress

  "Obama Announces Student Loan Relief Plan". www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2011.

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