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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States of America from 2009 to 2017. Born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas, he won the 2008 presidential election and was re-elected president in November 2012.
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My view is that this is the beginning, not the end, of what is going to be a journey that takes some time.
We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.
The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.
Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
Democracy is a garden that has to be tended.
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
When words stop meaning anything, when truth doesn’t matter, when people can just lie with abandon, democracy can’t work.
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech -- because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
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."
The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.
War, no matter what our intentions may be, brings suffering and tragedy.
A world in which one percent of humanity controls as much wealth as the other 99 percent will never be stable.
United Nations Address (2016)
The essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny.
In every culture, those who love freedom for themselves must ask themselves how much they're willing to tolerate freedom for others.
The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.
The blessings of liberty must be earned and renewed by every generation -- including our own.
No external power can bring about a transformation of hearts and minds.
Address to the United Nations (2014)
If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition.
Trayvon Martin could have been me thirty five years ago.
Remarks regarding the shooting of Trayvon Martin and Trial of George Zimmerman (2013)
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Dreams from My Father (1995) · 1 Remarks of Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama Against Going to War with Iraq (2002, speech) · 1 Democratic National Convention speech (2004, speech) · 2 The New Yorker (2004) · 1 Commencement address at the University of Massachusetts Boston (2006, speech) · 1 Voting against a Flag Desecration Amendment (2006) · 1 A World that Stands as One (2008) · 3 Election victory speech (2008, speech) · 1 Yes, we can speech (2008, speech) · 1 A New Beginning (2009) · 20 A World without Nuclear Weapons (2009) · 1 Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2009, speech) · 19 School speech (2009, speech) · 1 nobel peace prize acceptance speech (2009, speech) · 1 State Of The Union (2010) · 2 Weekly Address (2010, speech) · 1 Address on interventions in Libya (2011, speech) · 17 Address on the natural and nuclear energy disasters in Japan (2011, speech) · 4 Remarks at a Dedication Ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial (2011, speech) · 1 Remarks on Egyptian political transition (2011, speech) · 3 Remarks on Egyptian protests (2011, speech) · 2 Remarks on death of Osama bin Laden (2011, speech) · 8 Remarks on the economy (2011, speech) · 3 Tucson Memorial Address (2011, speech) · 9 Re-election Speech (2012, speech) · 2