Barack Obama Quotes
We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.
The presidents had announced that they would resume diplomatic relations and allow trade, tourism, and other exchange after 40 years of U. S. policy boycotting Cuba to produce more democratic reform and regime change. Fidel Castro, however, became the longest serving ruler or leader of any country in the world, and despite (some argue because of) the boycott was also one of the most popular leaders. The boycott was based on faulty intelligence and after 40 years of no results, President Obama's administration reversed the historical policy that had not been working though there were some American Castro haters who objected to the change arguing that with more time and the death of Fidel Castro who was ill at the time, the boycott would be effective and then we could negotiate for something in exchange for lifting the boycott.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Democrat, IL), Statement at his meeting with Raul Castro, President of Cuba, April 2015
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
The past history of Europe had developed so much hate and enmity among the different nations that they were all loaded down with the past and to move forward he argued that the past must be forgotten. However it was not, and Germany most of all harbored resentments which erupted a decade later with Hitler, the Nazis and WWII.
One month later, on January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the Confederate states
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.
