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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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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.
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I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.
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America is number one in wind power.
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Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.
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We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
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It's time to stop being ambivalent. ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
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We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.
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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
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