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This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher... We've got it all.
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America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
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I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made.
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.
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Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.
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Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington
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Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.
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If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.
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Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.
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Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.
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Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.
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I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.
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It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.
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If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.
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America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.
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Libya is still a mess right now.
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In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed.
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