Barack Obama Quotes
Our veterans have been fighting abroad for our freedom; the last thing they should have to do is fight for a job at home.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Democrat, IL), United States Senator (Democrat, IL, Address to Congress on his Jobs Bill, September 9, 2011
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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.
