"If you want to know who we..." - Quote by Barack Obama
If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.
More by Barack Obama
“We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.”
“I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you.”
“I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side.”
More on National Character
“The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.”
“In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.”
“What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.”
More on Values
“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
“I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.”
“Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.”