Barack Obama

I’m a history buff, and I know that big changes take time. But I also know that, setting politics aside, usually things are never as good as you think they are or as bad as you think they are. And that has served me well temperamentally.

Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.

My first four jobs were minimum wage or close to it.

Obviously I couldn’t have done anything that I’ve done without Michelle… not only has she been a great first lady, she is just my rock. I count on her in so many ways every single day.

If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president. Being married to Michelle Obama is number one.

There’s no doubt I’m a better man having spent time with Michelle. I would never say that Michelle’s a better woman, but I will say she’s a little more patient.

Learn something new every day.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who would go one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

You must work on improving your skills every day and never quit.

We are now embarked on another venture to put the American dream to work in meeting the new demands of a new day. Once again we must start where men would improve their society have always known they must begin – with an educational system restudied, reinforced, and revitalized.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

The biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.