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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world.
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What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.
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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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How do we in the African American community build a culture in which we are saying to our kids, Here's what it takes to succeed. Here's the sacrifices you need to make to be able to get ahead. Here's how we support each other. Here's how we look out for each other.
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I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool.
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I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance.
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My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.
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We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.
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If you think that we've overregulated in the environmental space what I can show you is that we have tripled the amount of wind power in this country, increased by tenfold the amount of solar power. We are producing as much oil and gas as we've ever produced.
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[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
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We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.
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Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.
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I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.
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It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.
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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.
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