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For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive diversity and openness an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.
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The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are gonna be more successful than societies that don't.
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Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
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Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.
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What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
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Change has come to America.
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Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new.
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We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.
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What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.
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People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.
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I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.
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What has made America the wealthiest, most successful country on Earth historically has been our commitment to education.
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You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.
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But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.
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Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.
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My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.
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Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.
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I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.
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