who said "i know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, ill go to it laughing."

Every presidency tin be seen as a series of words. Which is why nosotros decided to read through hundreds of thousands of the words of Barack Obama—who was a writer, in practice and disposition, long earlier he was the 44th president of the United States. What does he recall of his job? Yep we can, Obama said when he ran. But not overnight, he was quick to add subsequently he won. Change is hard. Just look at these 101 things he's said since 2006, from his glossy sense of what his presence in the Oval Office could mean to what turned out to be a much more constrained, less soaring reality. Hither is the arc of Obama.

1. "My attitude about something like the presidency is that yous don't want to simply be the president. You desire to alter the country. You want to make a unique contribution. You want to be a nifty president." (Men'south Faddy, September 2006)

2. "This state is ready for a transformative politics of the sort that John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt represented." (Time, October 15, 2006)

iii. "I don't know exactly what makes somebody fix to exist president. It's not clear that JFK was 'ready' to be president, it's not articulate that Harry Truman, when he was elevated, was 'ready,' and yet, somehow, some people respond and some people don't. My instinct is that people who are ready are folks who become into it understanding the gravity of their work, and are able to combine vision and judgment." (New Yorker, November 6, 2006)

four. "Well, there are a lot of things I think I can accomplish, only two things I know. The beginning is, when I heighten my mitt and take that adjuration of office, at that place are millions of kids around this land who don't believe that it would ever be possible for them to exist president of the United States. And for them, the world would change on that twenty-four hours. And the 2d affair is, I remember the earth would look at united states differently the day I got elected, because it would be a reaffirmation of what America is, about the constant perfecting of who we are. I think I can help repair the damage that'due south been done." (Game Change, December thirteen, 2006)

5. "Too many times, later on the ballot is over and the confetti is swept abroad, all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and special interests move in, and people turn away, disappointed as before, left to struggle on their own." (speech announcing his presidential entrada, February ten, 2007)

half dozen. "I'g running for president because the time for the can't-do, won't-do, won't-even-endeavour fashion of politics is over. It'southward time to turn the page." (speech in San Diego, May 2, 2007)

seven. "I think that I have the capacity to get people to recognize themselves in each other." (This Week, May 13, 2007)

eight. "I really believe my ain rhetoric." (Newsweek, May 2008)

9. "I was never the likeliest candidate for this function." (election victory spoken communication, Nov four, 2008)

10. "I do have confidence that nosotros're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight." (Today, February 2, 2009)

11. "I always felt that a president is answerable for making the best decisions, but that there are going to be a lot of unexpected twists and turns along the way. And as I said recently, this is still a human enterprise and these are big, tough, complicated problems. Somebody noted to me that by the time something reaches my desk, that ways it's really hard. Because if it were easy, somebody else would accept made the decision and somebody else would accept solved it." (New York Times, March 7, 2009)

12. "I do think in Washington it'due south a piddling scrap like American Idol, except everybody is Simon Cowell. Everybody'due south got an opinion." (The This evening Show with Jay Leno, March 19, 2009)

thirteen. "And, you lot know, plainly, at the inauguration I call back that in that location was justifiable pride on the part of the country that we had taken a step to motion usa beyond some of the searing legacies of racial bigotry in this state. Merely that lasted nigh a day." (White House news briefing, March 24, 2009)

14. "Well, I had a addiction of praying every night, before I go to bed. I pray all the fourth dimension now. Because I've got a lot of stuff on my plate and I need guidance all the time." (Nightline, July 24, 2009)

15. "Look, you know, when you're in this job, I think, uh—every president who'southward had information technology is constantly humbled by the caste to which at that place are a lot of issues out there, and the notion that i person solitary can solve all these issues—I think yous're cured of that illusion very quickly." (Nightline, July 24, 2009)

16. "After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you lot won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!' And and then Sasha added, 'Plus, nosotros take a three-solar day weekend coming upwardly.' So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective." (remarks on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Oct 9, 2009)

17. "I don't recall anything prepares you for the presidency." (U.Southward. News & World Report, Oct 27, 2009)

eighteen. "Exercise every solar day. Seeing my family. Keeping things in perspective. Reading history. Reminding yourself that this is a long-term proposition and you're not going to go everything exactly right, only hopefully, if y'all're moving things in the right trajectory, that things usually work out." (U.Due south. News & Globe Report, Oct 27, 2009)

19. "The worst thing virtually being president is all the dissonance, all the political games—y'all know, information technology can be similar a hall of mirrors, where only a few people are talking to each other and never breaking out of it. And Michelle is very skilful at making me focus not on the immediate orbit that we're in but what's going on outside of information technology." (interview with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Dec 11, 2009)

20. "Let'southward be clear hither. Seven presidents have tried to reform a health care system that everyone acknowledges is broken. Vii presidents have failed up until this point." (60 Minutes, December 13, 2009)

21. "You know, nosotros live in history. And it'due south complicated. And things aren't always, y'all know, completely clean." (6 0 Minutes, December thirteen, 2009)

22. "Y'all know, this is a town where once a screw-up happens, people tin can't simply say, 'OK, that was a screw-up and let's set up it.' There has to be, you know, 2 weeks' worth of cable churr about it." (lx Minutes, December thirteen, 2009)

23. "There's got to be a sense sometimes that nosotros're willing to ascent above our particular interests, our particular ideas, in guild to get things done. Right now, that culture has, I recollect, broken down over the terminal several years, and ane of my jobs over the adjacent 3 years is to try to see if we can revive that." (ABC News, December 16, 2009)

24. "The one thing I'one thousand clear almost is that I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre 2-term president. And I—and I believe that." (ABC News, January 26, 2010)

25. "When your poll numbers drop, yous're an idiot. When your poll numbers are high, you're a genius. If my poll numbers are low, then I'm absurd and cerebral and cold and discrete. If my poll numbers are high, well, 'He'southward calm and reasoned.'" (ABC News, Jan 26, 2010)

26. "My signal is the easiest thing to exercise in politics is to point fingers, to figure out who to blame for something, or to brand people afraid of things. That's the easiest way to become attention. That'southward what reporters will report on. You call somebody a name, y'all say, 'Wait what a terrible thing they've done, and they're going to exercise more terrible things to you if you lot don't watch out.'" (speech in New Hampshire, Feb 2, 2010)

27. "Let'due south acknowledge that commonwealth has e'er been messy. Let'due south not be overly nostalgic." (National Prayer Breakfast, February 4, 2010)

28. "We—I've got a whole bunch of portraits of presidents around here, starting with Teddy Roosevelt, who tried to do [wellness care reform] and didn't get it done. The reason that information technology needs to exist done is not its effect on the presidency. It has to practice with how it's going to affect ordinary people who right at present are badly in need of help." (Special Written report with Bret Baier, March 17, 2010)

29. "People don't progress in a straight line. Countries don't progress in a direct line." (David Remnick'southward The Span, April 6, 2010)

30. "As I've found out after a twelvemonth in the White House, changing this type of slash-and-burn politics isn't easy." (University of Michigan graduation oral communication, May 1, 2010)

31. "I also accept the shortest commute of everyone I know. And that makes a huge difference considering it means no matter how long I'yard working whatever given 24-hour interval I tin can always go upstairs to meet my wife and kids. And that's something I probably appreciate more than than annihilation else about being hither in the White Firm." (C-Span, August 12, 2010)

32. "You lot know, the Lincoln Bedroom, I don't go into much, except when at that place are visitors. Every in one case in a while, I'll sneak in, only to reread the Gettysburg Accost." (C-Bridge, August 12, 2010)

33. "I volition say that the Due south Lawn is extraordinary. And we built this play ready out here that Malia and Sasha used to use a lot. They're now getting onetime enough where sometimes they don't use it equally much equally we look. Only I've got nieces and nephews and kids of staff come in. And in that location are times when I'm working here and I'll look out the window and suddenly somebody's on a swing or laughing as they go down a slide, and information technology reminds you of why we're doing what we're doing." (C-SPAN, Baronial 12, 2010)

34. "You know, look, our political life is like our private lives. At that place are ups and downs. There are peaks and valleys." (New York Times Magazine, October 12, 2010)

35. "I brand no apologies for having set high expectations for myself and for the country, because I recall we tin meet those expectations. Now, the one thing that I will say—which I predictable and can be tough—is the fact that in a big, messy democracy similar this, everything takes time. And nosotros're non a civilisation that's built on patience." (New York Times Magazine, October 12, 2010)

36. "History never precisely repeats itself. Simply in that location is a blueprint in American presidencies—at least modern presidencies. Y'all come in with excitement and fanfare. The other party initially, having been beaten, says it wants to cooperate with you. You start implementing your programme as yous promised during the campaign. The other political party pushes back very difficult. It causes a lot of consternation and drama in Washington. People who are already cynical and skeptical well-nigh Washington generally wait at it and say, 'This is the same sometime mess as we've seen earlier.' The president's poll numbers driblet. And you have to then sort of wrestle back the confidence of the people as the programs that you've put in identify first bearing fruit." (New York Times Magazine, October 12, 2010)

37. "I am president, I am non king. I can't do these things simply by myself." (Univision, October 25, 2010)

38. "My attitude is, if we're makin' progress, step past step, inch by inch, day by 24-hour interval, that nosotros are being true to the spirit of that campaign." (The Daily Show, October 27, 2010)

39. "Then, the nearly important things for me over the concluding two years, in terms of stress reduction, is the fact that if I'm hither in Washington, I'grand having dinner at 6:xxx, only about every night. And sitting around that table, listening to [my kids], and trying to answer their questions, that keeps my bearings." (ABC News, November 26, 2010)

40. "As I travel beyond the state folks often enquire me what is it that I pray for. And like most of yous, my prayers sometimes are general: 'Lord, give me the force to meet the challenges of my office.' Sometimes they're specific: 'Lord, give me patience every bit I sentry Malia get to her beginning dance—where there will be boys.' 'Lord, have that brim become longer equally she travels to that dance.'" (National Prayer Breakfast, February 3, 2011)

41. "I call back that when you're president of the United states of america, it comes with the territory that folks are going to criticize y'all. That's what I signed upwards for." (NPR, July 22, 2011)

42. "No wonder I take got more gray hair now." (CNN, Baronial xvi, 2011)

43. "Equally long equally I'k president, I'm gonna be held responsible, in some fashion, to gear up the trouble." (sixty Minutes, December eleven, 2011)

44. "Sometimes when I'm talking to my squad, I describe us as, y'all know—I'grand the captain and they're the crew on a ship, going through really bad storms. And no matter how well we're steering the ship, if the boat's rocking back and forth and people are getting sick and, you know, they're being buffeted by the winds and the pelting and, y'all know, at a certain indicate, if yous're request, 'Are you lot enjoying the ride right now?' Folks are gonna say, 'No.' And [if you lot] say, 'Practice you recall the captain's doing a skilful chore?' People are gonna say, 'You know what? A good helm would have had us in some smooth waters and sunny skies, at this point.' And I don't control the weather. What I can control are the policies we're putting in place to make a difference in people's lives." (60 Minutes, December 11, 2011)

45. "You know, at that place was really a good article written a while back, taking a look at the old press clips from every Democratic president, dating back to Franklin Roosevelt, including Roosevelt. And, you know, nobody was happy with them. Nobody was happy with them. Y'all know? Bill Clinton, who'southward honey by the Autonomous Party, at this betoken—and I consider to be an extraordinarily successful president—you look at his old printing clippings, he was getting beat upwards with some of the same stuff I was getting crush up with." (sixty Minutes, December 11, 2011)

46. "I think that when I came into office in 2008, it was my business firm belief that at such an important moment in our history, at that place was no reason why Democrats and Republicans couldn't put some of the erstwhile ideological baggage bated and focus on common sense, what works, practical solutions to the tough problems we were facing. And I think the Republicans fabricated a different calculation, which was, 'You know what? We actually screwed up the economy. Obama seems popular. Our all-time bet is to stand on the sidelines, considering nosotros think the economy's gonna go worse, and at some point, merely arraign him.'" (sixty Minutes, December 11, 2011)

47. "I didn't overpromise. And I didn't underestimate how tough this was gonna be. I always believed that this was a long-term project; this wasn't a short-term projection." (60 Minutes, Dec 11, 2011)

48. "The one affair I've prided myself on before I was president—and it turns out that continues to be true equally president—I'grand a persistent son of a gun. I just stay at it. And I'k just gonna keep on staying at it every bit long as I'grand in this office." (sixty Minutes, December eleven, 2011)

49. "I've got five more than years of stuff to do." (60 Minutes, December 11, 2011)

50. "There's nothing more humbling, actually, than being president. Information technology'south a strange matter. All of a sudden, you've got all the pomp and the circumstance and y'all've got the helicopters and you've got the Air Forcefulness I and—and the plane is really nice. It really is. I mean, Bill may not miss being president, but he misses that aeroplane. Let's face it, he does. Information technology's a great aeroplane. And I'll miss it, too." (remarks at a private fundraiser in McLean, Virginia, April 29, 2012)

51. "Only non yet." (remarks at a private fundraiser in McLean, Virginia, April 29, 2012)

52. "The gridlock yous meet in Washington does non exist out in neighborhoods and cities and towns beyond the country. If I go to Malia'southward or Sasha'south soccer game and I'1000 continuing there with a bunch of parents, I don't know whether or non they're Democrats or Republicans, and most of them have the same concerns and the same values." (Late Show with David Letterman, September 19, 2012)

53. "You'll encounter I habiliment but gray or blue suits. I'1000 trying to pare downwards decisions. I don't want to make decisions about what I'1000 eating or wearing. Because I accept too many other decisions to brand." (Vanity Fair, October 2012)

54. "You demand to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You lot tin't be going through the day distracted by trivia." (Vanity Fair, October 2012)

55. "I played a lot of sports when I was a kid, and still do. If you take a bad game, y'all just move on. You lot look frontward to the next one. And information technology makes you that much more adamant." (ABC News, October 10, 2012)

56. "Then we've made real progress these past four years. But … we know our piece of work's not done yet. … And that's why I'm running for a second term as president. Considering we've got more work to do." (campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, November 1, 2012)

57. "The biggest challenge we've always had is that unlike FDR—who came into office when the economy had already bottomed out, and then people understood that everything done subsequent to his election was making things better—I came in just equally we were sliding." (Rolling Stone, Nov 8, 2012)

58. "I think that being in this office has made me even more appreciative of my family in means that I didn't retrieve I could exist. I already loved them and so much, but when you're nether all these pressures, to come home every single dark—at least when I'm in town—and have Michelle and the girls there, and draw joy from them … they are my residue and they proceed me grounded, and that'south truer at present than information technology'due south ever been." (O, The Oprah Magazine, November 2012)

59. "Practise I wish that things were more orderly in Washington, and rational, and people listened to the all-time arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when yous wait at history, that'due south been the exception rather than the norm." (Come across the Printing, Dec thirty, 2012)

60. "There are all sorts of lessons to be learned both from past presidents and my own first term. I've said this before, but one of the things that happened in the first term was that nosotros had so many fires going on at the aforementioned time that we were focusing on policy and getting it right, which means that we were spending less time communicating with the American people about why we were doing what nosotros were doing and how information technology tied together with our overarching desire of strengthening our middle class and making the economic system piece of work." (New Republic, January 27, 2013)

61. "And a big chunk of my twenty-four hour period is occupied by news of war, terrorism, ethnic clashes, violence done to innocents." (New Republic, January 27, 2013)

62. "I am more mindful probably than most of non merely our incredible strengths and capabilities, but likewise our limitations." (New Republic, January 27, 2013)

63. "I think, you know, 1 of the things that humbles you equally president—I'm sure Hillary feels the aforementioned way equally secretary of state—is that you lot realize that all you can practice every single day is to figure out a management, make sure that yous are working as hard as y'all can to put people in places where they can succeed, ask the right questions, shape the right strategy. Just it's going to be a squad that both succeeds and fails. And it'southward a procedure of constant improvement, because the globe is big and it is chaotic. You know, I remember Bob Gates—you know, commencement affair he said to me, I think perchance starting time calendar week or two that I was there and we were meeting in the Oval Office. And he, apparently, has been through 7 presidents or something. And he says, 'Mr. President, one matter I tin guarantee y'all is that at this moment, somewhere, somehow, somebody in the federal regime is screwing upward.'" (60 Minutes, January 27, 2013)

64. "Yous know, there are transitions and transformations taking identify all around the world. Nosotros are not going to be able to control every aspect of every transition and transformation. Sometimes they're going to go sideways. Sometimes, you lot know, there'll be unintended consequences." (sixty Minutes, January 27, 2013)

65. "But I do worry sometimes that as soon as nosotros leave the prayer breakfast, everything we've been talking about the whole time at the prayer breakfast seems to be forgotten—on the same day of the prayer breakfast. I mean, yous'd like to think that the shelf life wasn't and then curt. But I go back to the Oval Office and I start watching the cablevision news networks and it's like we didn't pray." (National Prayer Breakfast, Feb 7, 2013)

66. "Equally president, sometimes I have to search for the words to console the inconsolable. Sometimes I search Scripture to determine how best to balance life as a president and equally a husband and as a begetter. I often search for Scripture to figure out how I tin be a better man as well as a improve president." (National Prayer Breakfast, February 7, 2013)

67. "What people actually typically want is a clean solution, a silvery bullet, hither'due south what we're going to do and we simply motility forward—well, that'southward not, unfortunately, how the world works." (Charlie Rose, June 17, 2013)

68. "If we get in the habit where a few folks, an extremist wing of one political party, whether it's Democrat or Republican, are allowed to extort concessions based on a threat of undermining the total religion and credit of the United States, and so any president who comes after me, non just me, will find themselves unable to govern finer." (CNBC, October 2, 2013)

69. "It is not unusual for Democrats and Republicans to disagree. That'southward the mode the founders designed our government. Republic'southward messy. But when yous have a situation in which a faction is willing potentially to default on U.S. authorities obligations, and then we are in trouble." (CNBC, October ii, 2013)

70. "Am I exasperated? Absolutely I'chiliad exasperated." (CNBC, October ii, 2013)

71. "How business organization is washed in this town has to alter." (remarks at the White House, October 17, 2013)

72. "Disagreement cannot hateful dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred." (remarks at the White House, October 17, 2013)

73. "You know, when Social Security was beginning passed, people said, 'This is socialism, this is terrible.' When Medicare passed, people were fighting information technology, saying, 'Yous're going to lose, you know, your health care.' Some of the same arguments that are made about the Affordable Intendance Deed you heard about Social Security, you heard about Medicare. But once y'all go over that hump and the thing starts rolling, and people become accustomed to it and confident about it, information technology ends up helping a lot of people and, you know, that'due south but the nature of social alter in this state." (Steve Harvey, December 20, 2013)

74. "In that location have been times where I've been constrained by the fact that I had two immature daughters who I wanted to spend time with—and that I wasn't in a position to work the social scene in Washington." (New Yorker, January 27, 2014)

75. "The only time I get frustrated is when folks act similar it'southward non complicated and there aren't some existent tough decisions, and are sanctimonious, as if somehow these aren't complicated questions." (New Yorker, January 27, 2014)

76. "I have strengths and I have weaknesses, similar every president, like every person. I do call up 1 of my strengths is temperament. I am comfortable with complexity, and I think I'yard pretty good at keeping my moral compass while recognizing that I am a product of original sin. And every morning and every nighttime I'm taking measure of my actions confronting the options and possibilities available to me, understanding that there are going to be mistakes that I make and my team makes and that America makes; understanding that there are going to be limits to the skillful we tin can exercise and the bad that we can preclude, and that there's going to be tragedy out in that location and, by occupying this part, I am part of that tragedy occasionally, only that if I am doing my very best and basing my decisions on the core values and ideals that I was brought up with and that I recollect are pretty consequent with those of about Americans, that at the end of the twenty-four hour period, things will be better rather than worse." (New Yorker, January 27, 2014)

77. "At the end of the day nosotros're function of a long-running story. Nosotros but try to become our paragraph correct." (New Yorker, January 27, 2014)

78. "I attempt to focus non on the fumbles, but on the next plan." (Pull a fast one on News, February 2, 2014)

79. "I don't get a chance to take walks very often. Secret Service gets a piffling stressed. But every once in a while, I'm able to sneak off. I'thou sort of like the circus behave that kind of breaks the chain, and I first taking off, and everybody starts whispering, 'The carry is loose!'" (remarks at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York, May 22, 2014)

eighty. "The bear is loose." (leaving the White House for a Starbucks run, June 9, 2014)

81. "The final time I took a walk unencumbered was in Austin, Texas. Truthful story. This is earlier a argue in the principal. And I walked along the river, and I got about probably a mile, mile and a half, and and so some people started spotting me. … Secret Service got nervous." (remarks in Austin, July 10, 2014)

82. "What I've said to my team is, 'Get me out of Washington.' Permit me talk to people who are doing the correct thing and struggling, so that they know they're beingness heard by at to the lowest degree somebody in Washington. Permit's remind the state what we should be focused on. So that we tin can besides maybe prod Congress into doing the right thing." (remarks in Austin, July 10, 2014)

83. "Once I'm done, then I'll await back and see what the legacy is." (YouTube interview, January 22, 2015)

84. "I'm not ignoring information technology. I'one thousand dealing with it every day. That'southward what I wake up to each forenoon. I go a thick book full of death, destruction, strife and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea." (Vox, February 9, 2015)

85. "I don't go too high, don't go too low." (Huffington Mail service, March 21, 2015)

86. "Equally long as I stay focused on those n stars, then I tend not to get too rattled." (Huffington Postal service, March 21, 2015)

87. "I want to thank everybody here for their prayers, which mean so much to me and Michelle. Specially at a time when my daughters are starting to grow up and starting to go on college visits, I need prayer. I start tearing upwards in the middle of the day and I tin can't explain it. Why am I and then sad? They're leaving me." (White Firm Easter Prayer Breakfast, April 7, 2015)

88. "I got a letter a while dorsum from a gentleman living in Colorado, and conspicuously an intelligent guy, and he had taken a lot of time to write this letter. And he said, you know, 'I voted for y'all twice, but I'm feeling disillusioned.' … And it went on and on, chronicling all the things that hadn't gotten done. And most of what he said I responded to, I think, pretty effectively, considering he seemed to accept forgotten everything that had happened and how he had benefited. But the cadre, I think, of his concern, the core of his complaint, was that he thought that when I got to Washington I could bring people together and make them work more effectively. And the fact of the matter is, is that Washington is still gridlocked and still seems obsessed with the brusque term and the next election instead of the next generation. And on that issue, I had to tell him, 'Y'all're correct.' I am frustrated, and you have every right to be frustrated, because Congress doesn't piece of work the way it should. Issues are left untended. Folks are more interested in scoring political points than getting things done—not because whatever individual member of Congress is a bad person—there are a lot of expert, well-meaning, hardworking people out there—but because the incentives that have been built into the system reward short-term, reward a polarized politics, reward being simplistic instead of existence true, reward division. And as mightily every bit I have struggled against that, I told him, 'Yous're right. It still is broken.' But I reminded him that when I ran in 2008, I, in fact, did not say I would fix it; I said nosotros could fix it. I didn't say, 'Yes, I tin can.' I said—what? … 'Yes, we tin.'" (remarks in Santa Monica, California, June xviii, 2015)

89. "I've been through this. I've screwed upwardly. I've been in the barrel tumbling downwardly Niagara Falls, and I emerged, and I lived. And that's such a liberating feeling. It's one of the benefits of historic period." (WTF with Marc Maron, June 22, 2015)

90. "You know there'due south a place in Hawaii, Hanauma Bay, which is at present a natural preserve. But it'southward a cute coral reef, and my mother, she e'er says that the reason I'm calm is considering when she was meaning with me she used to get down to this bay and sit down and listen to the water." (BBC, June xxx, 2015)

91. "I can say this unequivocally. The VA is better now than when I came into office. Government works better than when I came into office. The economy, by any metric, is better than when I came into office. And so the reason I can sleep at nighttime is, I say to myself, 'You know what? It's amend.' At present, am I satisfied with information technology? No. And should voters be satisfied with it? Absolutely not. Because otherwise, you know, if we get complacent and lazy, and so stuff doesn't happen." (The Daily Evidence, July 21, 2015)

92. "What I establish during the class of the presidency, and I suppose this is truthful in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news bicycle to carry fruit." (BBC, July 24, 2015)

93. "I am in my second term. It has been an extraordinary privilege for me to serve equally president of the United States. I cannot imagine a greater honor or a more than interesting job. I love my piece of work. Simply under our Constitution, I cannot run again. I can't run again. I actually call back I'yard a pretty skillful president—I think if I ran, I could win. But I tin can't. So at that place's a lot that I'd like to do to keep America moving, but the law is the constabulary. And no one person is to a higher place the law. Not even the president. And I'll exist honest with you—I'm looking forward to life after being president. I won't have such a big security detail all the time. It means I can go take a walk. I can spend fourth dimension with my family." (speech in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 28, 2015)

94. "I've been around this track at present for a while." (NPR, August ten, 2015)

95. "Gotta keep moving." (NPR, Baronial x, 2015)

96. "That's one of the hardest things in politics to convince people of: to make investments today that don't pay off until many years from now." (Rolling Stone, September 23, 2015)

97. "I practice call back that Speaker Boehner sometimes had a tough position because there were members in his conclave who saw compromise of any sort as weakness or expose. And when yous have divided government, when you have a democracy, compromise is necessary. And I call up Speaker Boehner sometimes had difficulty persuading members of his caucus of that." (White House news conference, September 25, 2015)

98. "Just every bit I said from the showtime, information technology'due south going to take time." (news briefing in Antalya, Turkey, November 16, 2015)

99. "At that place's no dubiety that the longer I'm in this task, the more confident I am about the decisions I'm making and more knowledgeable almost the responses I can expect. And as a consequence, you terminate upwards existence looser. There's not much I have not seen at this indicate, and I know what to expect, and I can anticipate more I did before." (GQ, Nov 17, 2015)

100. "When I think about how I sympathise my office as citizen, setting bated existence president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the near of import stuff I've learned I recall I've learned from novels. Information technology has to practice with empathy. It has to do with being comfy with the notion that the world is complicated and full of grays, but there'southward yet truth there to be found, and that you have to strive for that and work for that." (New York Review of Books, November 19, 2015)

101. "One of the things that you detect is when you're in this chore, yous call up about it differently than when yous're just running for the job." (news briefing in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, December ane, 2015)

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