His father left soon after his birth, and the couple divorced two years later. They married on February 2, 1961, and Barack II was born six months later. While studying at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Obama Sr. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program and, after several moves, ended up in Hawaii. After the war, the couple studied on the G.I. Dunham's mother, Madelyn, went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dunham's father, Stanley, enlisted in the military and marched across Europe in General George Patton's army. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was born on an Army base in Wichita, Kansas, during World War II. we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words-yes, we can.”

Yes, we can.” “And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation.” “If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.” “Yes, we can. We are the change that we seek.” “Hope-Hope in the face of difficulty. Let's seize this moment to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and strengthen our union once more.” “It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential.” “What Washington needs is adult supervision.” “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” “My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.” “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.

And we'll remind the world just why it is the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth.” “We don't quit. What's too risky is looking the other way.” “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law-for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” “I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.” “It is easier to start wars than to end them.” “I guarantee you we will move this country forward. Don't let them tell you that standing out and speaking up about injustice is too risky. We have been, and always will be, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all a nation with responsibilities to ourselves and with responsibilities to one another.” “We are a nation that endures because of the courage of those who defend it.” “So don't let anyone tell you that change is not possible. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work.” “No single individual built America on their own. I'm opposed to dumb wars.” “Our challenges may be new, the instruments with which we meet them may be new, but those values upon which our success depends, honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old.” “We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.” “Our government should work for us, not against us.

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