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
And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
If you've got a business - you didn't build that.
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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?