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
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
I think his legacy can be seen in the African-Americans who have achieved success in corporate board rooms, in starting businesses, I think that my own success as U.S. Senator might not be possible had it not been for the shift in peoples' perceptions about what African-Americans could accomplish in this country,
We can't accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5 percent cuts in food stamps or 5 percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the poor are being burdened,
In cities and towns all across America it turns out that people pay for their own lunches and their own dinners. People who make far less than we do.
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
It was apparent on the first day that blacks were disproportionately impacted, and I felt it was important to help frame how we think about that issue, ... I was outraged and heartbroken by what happened and felt anxious. I felt like I needed to do something.
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.
They are going to have to find immediate work, immediate housing, immediately get their kids into school and that probably will change the demographics of the region.
They are two Illinois companies who want to do business and expand, ... but they are having roadblocks.
What's your name, sweetie? You look so pretty, ... You made this heart and you decided to give it to Bill Clinton, didn't you?
What's your name, sweetie? You look so pretty, ... You made this heart, and you decided to give it to Bill Clinton, didn't you?
What remains is the need to review claims that might have been denied, particularly in Illinois, so that we can close that imbalance,
What people want to know is who has a set of concrete plans to help them send their kids to college, or save for retirement.