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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.
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Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas.
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Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
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This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.
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We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and financial stability.
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Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.
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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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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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So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
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The silence killed your faith.
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What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.
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Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
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The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.
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If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.
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We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.
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What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.
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