What are President Obama's most famous speeches?

Axelrod calls it “Obama's love letter to America.” Jon Favreau, the president's lead speechwriter during his first term, has one of the speech's most famous lines hanging on the wall in his Los Angeles apartment: “In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.” The speech, though, has its flaws. read more

Obama spoke to the nation’s gun laws and used powerful phrases such as “we will have to change” that he did not come close to using in Tuscon. The speech included moments in which the clearly emotional Obama read the names of each Sandy Hook victims and was both touching and powerful. read more

President Obama’s speech from Selma should be scorched into every citizen’s soul. It was a scathing indictment of our society’s lackluster civic involvement, a bristling admonishment to members of Congress that scuttled the Voting Rights Act, yet the most soaring and inspiring rhetoric on the resiliency of the American spirit. read more

As president, Obama’s biggest and most consequential moments — his unfulfilled outreach to the Muslim world in Cairo, his Nobel Peace Prize address on the grim necessity of war in Oslo and his eulogy for nine slain parishioners in Charleston, S.C. — often have been speeches. read more