"Look, Americans will go for leadership that..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.”

“I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”

“Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.”

“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.”

“Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.”

“No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.”

“I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do”

“One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.”

“My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.”