The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. January 20, 2009 Obama: I Will Take Your Voices into the Oval Office --------------------------------------------------- On Sunday, Obama spoke before over 400,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during a star-studded concert. Barack Obama: “As I prepare to assume the presidency, yours are the voices I will take with me every day when I walk into that Oval Office, the voices of men and women who have different stories but hold common hopes, who ask only for what was promised us as Americans: that we might make of our lives what we will and see our children climb higher than we did.” .