Uploaded January 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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On Sunday, January 20, President Barack Obama will be sworn in for his second term in a private ceremony, with a public inauguration ceremony following on Monday, January 21. We assembled a montage of some of the best inauguration soundbites, dating back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inauguration in 1933 and up to and including President Obama's first inauguration.

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