Barack Obama Quotes
There is no person in this town who is doing particularly well at the moment when it comes to the opinions of the American people.
The president had not only sunk I the polls, but for the first time only a minority then thought that he was trustworthy. The Congress was even lower in public esteem. The approval for the Congressional Republicans was down to only 9 percent—the lowest since the poll had been taken.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Democrat, IL), United States Senator (Democrat, IL), Speech, November 19, 2013
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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.
