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It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response
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In America, we want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they're going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war. That's our purpose.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women.
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[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.
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After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.
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People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.
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Corporations aren’t people. People are people.
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Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls.
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