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 - )
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans.
Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
~ Barack Obama
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades,
the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
~ Barack Obama
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun.
Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
~ Barack Obama
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.
~ Barack Obama
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
~ Barack Obama
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to
understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
~ Barack Obama
Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
~ Barack Obama
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
~ Barack Obama
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.
Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
~ Barack Obama
Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
~ Barack Obama
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
~ Barack Obama
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old.
I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
~ Barack Obama
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
~ Barack Obama
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
~ Barack Obama
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.
~ Barack Obama
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
~ Barack Obama
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a
year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
~ Barack Obama
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or
antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
~ Barack Obama
No one is pro-abortion.
~ Barack Obama
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably.
Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
~ Barack Obama
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
~ Barack Obama
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve
peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
~ Barack Obama
My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the
limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she
wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.
~ Barack Obama
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
~ Barack Obama
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
~ Barack Obama
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so
that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
~ Barack Obama
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
He was one of the most extraordinary human beings the world has
ever known. Born into the family of a Boston candle maker, Benjamin
Franklin became the most famous American of his time. He helped
found a new nation and defined the American character. He was a writer,
inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist,
civic leader, international celebrity , simply a genius.
(1706-1790)
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
