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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office.
♦ 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 
♦ 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 
♦ 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 
♦ I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them - Barack Obama 
♦ It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label - Barack Obama 
♦ The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt - Barack Obama 
♦ And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation - 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 
♦ Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential - 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 
♦ 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. Everyone should try to realize their full potential - 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 
♦ 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 
♦ 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 
♦ 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 
♦ If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress - Barack Obama 
♦ A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense' - Barack Obama 
♦ But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day - Barack Obama 
♦ Americans still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do - Barack Obama 
♦ My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead - 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 

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Barack Obama


Born : August 4, 1961
Occupation: Community Organizer, Lawyer, Constitutional Law Professor , Author
Nationality: American
Last Update : 21 April 2016, ::: Malala Yousafzai

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