Final speech

10 best quotes from Barack Obama's farewell speech

obama-farewell-speech US President Barack Obama delivering his farewell address in Chicago | AFP

Outgoing President Barack Obama on Tuesday said goodbye to the US citizens in his final speech as the President of the United States. Here are 10 best quotes from his farewell speech.

1. "And every day, I have learned from you. You made me a better president, and you made me a better man"

2. "By almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place" than it was eight years ago"

3. "For every two steps forward, it often feels we take one step back. But the long sweep of America has been defined by forward motion, a constant widening of our founding creed to embrace all, and not just some"

4. "Our democracy won't work without a sense that everyone has economic opportunity"

5. "Our youth, our drive, our diversity and openness, our boundless capacity for risk and reinvention means that the future should be ours"

6. "Understand democracy does not require uniformity. Our founders argued, they quarreled, and eventually they compromised. They expected us to do the same"

7. "Now I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, no matter what some folks say"

8. "If we're unwilling to invest in the children of immigrants, just because they don't look like us, we will diminish the prospects of our own children—because those brown kids will represent a larger and larger share of America's workforce"

9. "So regardless of the station we occupy; we all have to try harder; we all have to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do; that they value hard work and family just like we do; that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own"

10. "You took on a role you didn't ask for and you made it your own," he said, praising his wife Michelle Obama

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