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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.
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It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.
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We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues.
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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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That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
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America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.
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You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people.
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Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.
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The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.
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I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.
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I said that America’s role would be limited that we would not put ground troops into Libya that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
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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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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.
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All people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love.
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