Barack Obama Quotes about Children

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

Children, Men, Ability

"Remarks By The President On Strengthening The Economy For The Middle Class". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 15, 2013.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Barack Obama

Children, Book, Reading

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

Barack Obama

Children, Quality, Life Is

Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?

Barack Obama

Children, Eye, Looks

Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

Barack Obama

Children, Climate, Sake

Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have -- for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace -- that is true. The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves, and binds us to something larger -- we know that’s what matters. We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that.

Barack Obama

Children, Memories, Kindness

Remarks by the President at Sandy Hook Interfaith Prayer Vigil, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 16, 2012.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Barack Obama

Dream, Children, Work Ethic

"U.S. Agriculture Secretary 'Convinced' Rural Revitalization Plan Will Work". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 15, 2014.

We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.

Barack Obama

Education, Jobs, Children

Barack Obama's Father's Day remarks at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2008.

All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.

Barack Obama

Children, Focus, Effort

A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

Barack Obama

Children, Dad, Mistake

"Obama talks of fatherhood". "Obama talks of fatherhood" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. June 18, 2011.

We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.

Barack Obama

Children, People, Egyptian Revolution

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

Barack Obama

Children, School, Cities

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.258, Broadway Books

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Barack Obama

Children, Father, Fool

"CBS's Smith to 'Father-in-Chief' Obama: 'Where Did You Learn to Love?'". www.newsbusters.org. June 22, 2009.

Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Barack Obama

Children, Eye, Journey

First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.

Barack Obama

Country, Jobs, Children

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Barack Obama

Children, Blood, Sweat

"2008: The year in review" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2008.

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

Barack Obama

Children, Ambition, Knowing

Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.

Barack Obama

Dream, Children, Reading

"We Compared Obama’s Words To Trump’s And The Result Will Make You Sad" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2016.

...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have differnt stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren. This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people.

Barack Obama

Hope, Children, Believe

My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.

Barack Obama

Bible, Children, Responsibility

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

It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.

Barack Obama

Children, Nice, Issues

"State of the Union Recap: Key Points You Need to Know from President Obama's 2015 Address" by Caitlin Moscatello, www.glamour.com. January 20, 2015.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

Barack Obama

Country, Children, Powerful

Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.

Barack Obama

Children, Mean, Long

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God.

Barack Obama

Children, Makeup, Thinking

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Barack Obama

Children, Father, World