奧巴馬的10句經典名言

1. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
如果我們一直等着別人或以後，改變是不會到來的。我們自己就是我們在等待的人。我們自己就是我們尋求的改變。

2. If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
如果你走在正確的道路上，並且願意繼續走下去，那你總有一天會取得進步。

3. The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
未來獎勵那些堅持下去的人。我沒有時間爲自己感到難過。我沒有時間抱怨。我要堅持下去。

4. Why can't I just eat my waffle?
爲什麼我不能吃我的華夫餅？

5. We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
我們需要內化這個卓越的想法。沒有多少人願意花這麼多時間來變得這麼優秀。

6. In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
我們被警告不要向這個民族的人提供虛假的希望。但美國不呢神就是個不可能的故事，從來沒有任何希望是假的。

7. There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
並不存在一個自由美國和一個保守美國的區別 - 只有團結的美利堅合衆國。

8. Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
金錢不是唯一的答案，但它的作用非常可觀。

9. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
如果人們不能相信他們的政府做它該做的事 - 保護他們和促進他們的共同福利 - 那我們就完全失敗了。

10. If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
最後，這就是這次選舉。我們是否參與憤世嫉俗的政治或希望的政治？