Barack Obama
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Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 2005 to 2008 and served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama is known for his signature policies including the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and his efforts in economic recovery following the 2008 financial crisis. His presidency was marked by significant legislative achievements and a focus on healthcare reform, climate change, and foreign policy initiatives such as the Iran nuclear deal.
Poitier once called his driving purpose, to make himself a better person. He did. And he made us all a little bit better along the way.
I wouldn`t have been president had it not been for your encouragement and support and I wouldn`t have gotten most of what I got done without your skill and determination. The world is better because of what you`ve done.
I wouldn’t have been president had it not been for your encouragement and support, and I wouldn’t have got most of what I got done without your skill and determination.
I think that when the story is written and when all is told, you’re going to have somebody who has done more for Nevada and for this country as anybody who has ever been in the Senate.
this appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the bench is one of the crown jewels of his accomplishments.
If you have tilted, skewed, politically gerrymandered, uncompetitive districts, that's going to attract candidates who are more extreme and only care about firing up their base, which means compromise becomes more difficult, which means a…
While our economy may be weakened, and our confidence shaken, we will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.
I volunteered for a little more than a year. And it, to me, is kind of the epitome of the American dream.
I have worked on a lot of fun movies, but my favorite job was having a boss who gave the order to take out bin Laden and who`s cool with all of us getting gay-married.
Their faith was questioned. Their lives were threatened, their patriotism challenged. And yet what could be more American than what happened in this place?
I have turned to Jay-Z`s words that different points in my life, whether I was brushing dirt off my shoulder on the campaign trail or sampling his lyrics on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Today, Jay-Z is one of the most renowned artists in…
Young people everywhere are in the process of imagining something different than what has come before.
And so a new generation inspired previous generations. And that’s how change happens in America.
Behind us stands the Brent Spence Bridge, and it's in such poor condition that it's been labeled functionally obsolete.
Back in the United States, of course, some of our progress stalled when my successor decided to unilaterally pull out of the Paris Agreement in his first year in office. I wasn’t real happy about that. And yet the determination of our…
It will reduce consumer energy cost, it will invest in a clean energy economy. It will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and it will set the United States on course to meet its new climate targets, achieving a 50 to 52 reduction in…
I have to confess it was particularly discouraging to see the leaders of two of the world’s largest emitters, China and Russia, declined to even attend the proceedings. And their national plans so far reflect what appears to be a dangerous…
Some of our progress stalled when my successor decided to unilaterally pull out of the Paris Agreement in his first year in office. I wasn`t real happy about that.
You don`t have to argue about some crazy tweet that the president sent out this morning. It won`t be so exhausting.
When you`re running for the presidency, then you have got to expect it. And you have just got to kind of let it...
Hip-hop is not just a mirror of what is. It should also be a reflection of what can be.





