His great commitment to civil rights, idealistic thoughts, and charmingly good looks helped make his Senate Campaign
and in 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and he gained national attention by giving a
rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for President, and despite
having only four years of national political experience, he won. In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States,
and the first African-American ever elected to that position.
(1961 - )
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power
of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
~ Barack Obama
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
~ Barack Obama
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
~ Barack Obama
People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
~ Barack Obama
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
~ Barack Obama
My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks.
~ Barack Obama
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
~ Barack Obama
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
~ Barack Obama
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation,
rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
~ Barack Obama
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
~ Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
~ Barack Obama
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation.
Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
~ Barack Obama
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.
We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
~ Barack Obama
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising
the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
~ Barack Obama
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
~ Barack Obama
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America.
There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
~ Barack Obama
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
~ Barack Obama
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
~ Barack Obama
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
~ Barack Obama
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
~ Barack Obama
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
~ Barack Obama
Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University.
He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA since
the 1950's, briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking,
Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets...
(1934-1996)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
