The 2011 TIME 100
Meet the most influential people in the world
Michelle Obama, First Lady
Declaring herself "first mom," Michelle Obama got right to work on the defining issues of her children's generation: obesity and improving the health of America's kids. By JAMIE OLIVER
Hillary Clinton, Sec. of the State
When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, she pledged a "smart power" policy that meant striking up a close working relationship with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates while reshaping the State Department to emphasize development and people-powered diplomacy. She deployed her personal star power in direct contacts with the public overseas, speaking clearly about human rights and freedom of expression on the Internet. JOSEPH S. NYE JR.
Barack Obama, President
"We remain a young nation," Barack Obama said in 2009, but he added an unsettling admonition that "in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things." No passage in his Inaugural Address more vividly reflected the President's vision of his country and his times or more accurately foreshadowed the vexations that were to beset his leadership.
DAVID M. KENNEDY
Joe Biden, Vice President,
The partnership between any President and Vice President is like a shotgun wedding: Sometimes it works well. Most of the time, it does not. But the relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden is as successful a public partnership as I have ever seen. RAHM EMANUEL
Gabrielle Giffords, Congresswoman
The violence in Tucson earlier this year was made all the more shocking by the quintessentially American scene that it shattered: folks of different backgrounds yet part of the same community gathering to share their hopes and ask questions of their elected representative. To put it simply, they came to do the daily work of democracy. By BARACK OBAMA
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Paul Ryan,Michele Bachmann, Joe Scarborough, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, David and Charles Koch, John Boehner
Sorry they aren't on the list Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck..