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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one.
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Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women
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Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.
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You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
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Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.
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If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.
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If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.
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If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
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I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.
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For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
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Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.
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It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting.
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To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE.
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I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.
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