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Senator Barack Obama

ObamaBarack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i in 1961. He attended Occidental College and Columbia University, and went on to Harvard Law School. After Harvard, Obama moved to Chicago where in 1993 he became a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. In 1996, Obama ran for the state Senate and was unopposed in the decisive Democratic primary. He lost a 2000 challenge in the 1st District Democratic primary against Rep. Bobby Rush. Incumbent Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald did not seek re-election in 2004 and Obama entered a crowded primary. He won 53% of the vote in an eight-candidate race and went on to win the general election against Alan Keyes by 43 points, the widest victory margin in Illinois history. Senator Obama currently serves on the Environment & Public Works, Foreign Relations, and Veterans' Affairs Committees. (2006 Almanac of American Politics)

Contact: Ask Barak Obama about his policies on children

Stands on Children and Family Issues

Videos

Education. Barack Obama talks about his plan for improving the nation's schools and making college more affordable.

Health Care. Barack Obama discusses his healthcare plan, and tells the personal story of a supporter in Iowa City on May 29, 2007.

Fatherhood. Barack Obama talking about fatherhood, responsibility, and child poverty in Selma, Alabama.

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Speeches

"When I'm President, we'll rally this country to the cause of world-class education. That means putting our kids on a pathway to success with universal, quality, affordable early childhood education. That means paying our teachers more, and making sure they're not just teaching to the test - but teaching art and music and literature."
-from The Past Versus the Future (Denver, CO 02/30/08)

"In recent years, states have been able to enroll nearly one million four year olds in pre-Kindergarten programs. That's a great success, but I believe we can do better. We need to enroll more children and we need to start at an even earlier age."
-from Our Kids, Our Future
(Manchester, NH 11/20/07)

"The ideal of a public education has always been at the heart of the American promise. It's why we are committed to fixing and improving our public schools instead of abandoning them and passing out vouchers."
-from National Education Assn speech (Philadephia, PA 07/05/07)

"I don't want to send another generation of American children to failing schools. I don't want that future for my daughters. I don't want that future for your sons. I do not want that future for America."
-from Address at Jefferson-Jackson Dinner (Des Moines, Iowa 11/10/07)

Quotes

"In the 2008 campaign, affordable, universal health care for every single American must not be a question of whether, it must be a question of how. We have the ideas, we have the resources, and we will have universal health care in this country by the end of the next president's first term."
-(Washington, DC 12/25/07)

"We know that as progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans, and that we're going to make sure that Americans don't have to choose between a health care plan that bankrupts the government and one that bankrupts families, the party that won't just throw a few tax breaks at families who can't afford their insurance, but will modernize our health care system and give every family a chance to buy insurance at a price they can afford."
-Annual 2006 Take Back America Conference (06/14/06)

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