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Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't What's good for me? but What's good for the country my children will inherit?

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
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Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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By 2016, the people who had looked to [Barack] Obama for change were looking somewhere else.
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
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The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.
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Reality has a way of asserting itself.
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That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.
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ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.
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The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.
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There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.
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By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States. We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.
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Everybody potentially can make the claim that we should all be treated fairly.
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There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.
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Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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One thing I think we have to do is to make sure that the undocumented workers who are living in America today, that they have to take responsibility. They've got to register, pay a fine, pay their back taxes, learn English and then get on a pathway in which they could have the prospect of being here legally.
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We are not going to keep the window open forever.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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Constitution is a living document no strict constructionism.
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