Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother - Stanley Ann Dunham- was from Kansas, and father - Barack Obama Sr - from Kenya. With the help of scholarship money and student loans, he completed his education at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Columbia University in New York, and later, Harvard Law School.
In 1985, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was introduced to community service and worked help rebuild communities that were devastated by the closure of local steel plants. Obama considers those period as the time of his life that gave him 'the best education that he ever had.' It was in 1996 when Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He is known to have passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, and sworn in as the President of the United States on January 20, 2009. He was the first African-American to be selected for the top job. He is married to Michelle Obama, and has two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Famous Quotes From The US President:
1. "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.
2. "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
3. "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."
4. "If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
5. “There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America — there is the United States of America”
6. "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."
7. “If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren’t willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.” – Quote from his book, 'Audacity of Hope (Chapter 2)
8. "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.”
9. "The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity. The America I know is decent and generous."
10. "America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."