We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.
Barack ObamaMy hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece.
Barack ObamaThe truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.
Barack ObamaTo the extent that our political dialogue is such where everything is under suspicion, everybody is corrupt and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all of our institutions are full of malevolent actors - if that's the storyline that's being put out there by whatever party is out of power, then when a foreign government introduces that same argument with facts that are made up, voters who have been listening to that stuff for years, who have been getting that stuff every day from talk radio or other venues, they're going to believe it.
Barack ObamaAnd thereโs been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. Thatโs something that we intend to fix this.
Barack Obama