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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.
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My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.
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[About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to -- I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.
Barack Obama
That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.
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I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
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I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
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It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.
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[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.
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Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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I do believe that Chancellor Merkel and Germany are a lynchpin in protecting the basic tenets of a liberal, market-based democratic order that has created unprecedented prosperity and security for Europe, but also for the world.
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I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.
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More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.
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You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless.
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Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country
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If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.
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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.
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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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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur.
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