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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky.
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No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.
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Campaigning is different from governing.
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It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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When you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your bills, then you become more worried about what other folks are doing. And sometimes that organizes itself around kind of a tribal attitude, and issues of race become more prominent.
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Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.
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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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You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, not in my backyard.
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I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.
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99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.
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The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.
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[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.
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In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.
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In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology
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When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.
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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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All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. We've seen such tragedies far too many times, and our hearts go out to the families and communities who've suffered such a painful loss.
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