Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it. Overwinningstoespraak in Iowa, 2008
Barack Obama

Barack Obama (1961), Amerikaans politicus en schrijver. De 44e president van de Verenigde Staten, in functie van 20 januari 2009 tot 20 januari 2017 gedurende twee ambtsperiodes. Eerste Amerikaanse president van (deels) Afrikaanse afkomst.
Achtergrondartikel: Het presidentschap van Barack Obama
Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it. Overwinningstoespraak in Iowa, 2008
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. Toespraak in 2004