Barack Obama
speaker
4,433 appearances
175 recordings
60 series
first heard Dec 2012
last heard yesterday
Barack Obama’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 126 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 43.
Appearances
They did a good job.
Looks like it's supposed to.
For all the very real progress America's made over the past seven years, we still have some unfinished business.
You know, I don't know that we were trying to prognosticate and say, all right, well, here's where things are going to be, and so we want to make sure we do this or that.
the words that are wrapped around the top of the tower.
Is the anniversary of the Selma speech.
I've often said that may not be my very best speech, but it is most representative of what I believe.
It captures my politics as well as anything.
And it's been pretty consistent.
This belief in
an American story that begins with these amazing words, this declaration that we are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights.
But it was imperfect and then we struggled to make that ideal real and that has always stood in opposition with a different idea of America that is based on caste and privilege and excluding people and dominating people.
And those two contrasting stories about America, a lot of my speeches, a lot of my politics has been arguing this is the better story.
And so I think it may seem as if right now the story told at the Presidential Center is a response to this particular moment.
But actually, I think it's a response to what has always been there in America.
You know, it's that part of America that says black people don't belong.
Or that says that women need to be in their place.
And gay folks need to be in the closet.
And...
Poor people need to stop complaining because a handful of people are the ones who are creating the wealth and they deserve to keep it.
Showing 1041–1060 of 4,433 · page 53 of 222
← Previous
Next →