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... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.
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We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.
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The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.
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When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.
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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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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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Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.
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The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.
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I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.
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My administration will be the most transparent in history
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Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it.
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I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.
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I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start. I would argue that I am the best president I've ever been over the last year or two. My team is more effective than it's ever been.But what is also true is that number one, this is grueling.
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We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.
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As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.
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They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
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