Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama IIis the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office and the first president born outside of the continental United States. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney and taught...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth4 August 1961
CityHonolulu, HI
CountryUnited States of America
This is not one of those situations where I think you can just jawbone industry into making the investment, ... This is not something that the markets alone will correct. We will have to use the government as a market-maker.
This budget tells our veterans that if they want increased funding for the VA they'll have to pay for it themselves.
I think that given how closely divided the court is and given the magnitude of some of the decisions that will probably be coming down during the course of his tenure on the court that I will be flying blind a little bit. There's no way to tell how his judgments will come down on some of these critical issues.
I think the bigger question is going to be 'How do we provide longer term housing and employment opportunities?
I think a good place to start would be for both Democrats and Republicans to say ? we are willing to experiment and invest on anything that works,
It could have potentially that kind of effect.
I think that the entire country felt shame about what had happened,
I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?
held no public office, she wasn't a wealthy woman, didn't appear in the society pages, she did not have an advanced degree (but) when the history of this country is written ... it is this small quiet woman whose name will be remembered.
Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.
The knee-jerk unbending and what I consider to be unfair attacks on Sen. Leahy's motives were unjustified,
The fact that you have now questioned my sincerity ... is regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you nor my willingness to find a bipartisan solution to this problem.
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, now you have these dispersed power centers, ... They are clearly still working out the kinks.