Barack Obama actually said...

I did not run for the presidency to fulfill some long-held ambition or because I believed it was somehow owed to me.

I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided politics to solve th...

Most of all, I believed in the power of the American people to be the real agents of change in this country.

But only if we're willing to work for it and fight for it.