Barack Obama Quotes


Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.


Citations

Obama, Barack. "Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina." 6 Sept. 2012. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack Obama, 2012, Book 2. United States Government Printing Office, 2015, p. 1324.

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
  • Born: August 4, 1961
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: President

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.