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
I very much feel like the novice and pupil, ... I'm spending most of my time listening as opposed to trying to interject myself into the process.
It is very important to recognize that the money that we spend now will not be wasted even if this particular strain of the virus, H5N1, ends up not becoming a pandemic flu, ... We know that over the next two, three decades there will be a pandemic flu. That's almost certain.
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
And Illinoisans want a Senate candidate who will attack the problems they and their families face rather than spending time attacking each other. I invite him to join me in such a race.
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.