The 44th President of the United States is celebrating his 53rd birthday today! President Barack Obama turned 53rd on Monday, according to the Associated Press Obama has been taking his birthday celebrations in stride, beginning the weekend with a festive game of golf accompanied by a few friends. Joining Obama at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland was Mike Ramos, Bobby Titcomb and Greg Orme.
The White House revealed that all three are longtime friends from Obama’s childhood in Hawaii. Following his time on the links, POTUS visited the Maryland Mountains. The group arrived in style, taking a ride aboard Marine One to Camp David, where the president can freely bask in his hidden retreat among the Catoctin Mountains. While not nearly as glamourous or exciting, Latin Times has decided to celebrate Obama’s birthday with a collection of his most memorable and inspiring quotes during his time as the President of the United States.
“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.” -- President Barack Obama
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” -- President Barack Obama, Speech on Race, 2008
“As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.” -- President Barack Obama
“The absence of hope can rot a society from within.” -- President Barack Obama, Nobel lecture, Oslo, 2009
“There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is the United States of America.” -- President Barack Obama, DNC Speech, Boston, 2004
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” -- President Barack Obama, Knox College Commencement Address, 2005
“The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.” -- President Barack Obama, Speech on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, 2013
“I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.” -- President Barack Obama, DNC Speech, Charlotte, 2012
“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.” -- President Barack Obama, DNC Speech, Charlotte, 2012
“This is our first task -- caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.” -- President Barack Obama, prayer vigil, Sandy Hook, Conn., 2012
“Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.” -- President Barack Obama, Second inaugural address, 2013
“I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you.” -- President Barack Obama, Presidential victory speech, Chicago, 2008
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