Barack Obama Quotes
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.
Obama, Barack. "Remarks by the President at the United States Military Academy Commencement Ceremony." West Point, New York, 28 May 2014.
Most American policy makers have believed that food should not by used as a weapon on moral and humitarian grounds. Butz was an ultra-conservative who were among the few that were willing to use food to achieve political opbjectives even it it meant starving people in other countries.
Kissinger had observed in his unpopular view that he was saying exactly what the George W. Bush administration had officially said on several occasions. This response is quoted by those who use it as an example of how low the reputation of the George W. Bush administration had sank with America’s foreign allies. Kissinger was seen as a much more important and influential factor despite the fact that he had been out of office for over two decades. At the time, many American allies had given up on Bush and because he was so unpopular with Americans as well as foreigners, they assumed that his statements would not represent American policy or opinion as soon as Bush’s term was over. The new President of whichever party would, it was assumed, repudiate most of the Bush actions and try and rebuild America’s shattered reputation. In that scenario, Kissinger’s views would not only be more representative of American positions than that of Bush and his diplomatic representatives.
The practice became extensively used and the phrase along with it during the William Howard Taft administration where the media popularized it.
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.
