Barack Obama Quotes
We are tackling the inefficiency and corruption that has long plagued the New Orleans Housing Authority.
What makes this quotation memorable is that fact that it was public stated. Presidents have almost never gone into a local area and publicly stated that one of its governmental institutions was corrupt. Moreover, the corruption had not only gone on with the laxity of the state and city officials who had been Republicans and of the President’s own party—Democrats. The speech was, surprisingly to some, very warmly received by a public and political audience who had known of the corruption for years, but finally someone was trying to do something about it.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Democrat, IL), United States Senator (Democrat, IL), Speech, New Orleans, August 29, 2010
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He and the other commissioners of both political parties were agreed that the procurement by The State Department, USAID, and especially the Defense Department which spent the most was terrible. The even had military generals in charge of billions of dollars of procurement who did not even know the procurement laws and regulations they were supposed to obey much less the skill of good procurement.
The irony of this quotation is that he is the architect and controller of the Russian system that he is criticizing.
by the President and the White House Kennan was certainly right in Powell’s case. The President and Vice President—Bush and Cheney used Powell’s and the State Department’s credibility to have Powell tell the United Nations and the American Public that there was incontrovertible evidence that Iraq has a nuclear weapon about to be deployed thus justifying the American invasion of Iraq, However, this was untrue. Not only was there no nuclear bomb almost ready for deployment, there was no nuclear development program in Iraq at all.
He had not committed any felonies, but these charges were laid under the concept of “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
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.
