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Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.
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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.
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Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.Truth: Obama later said, This was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech and we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given. The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem.
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If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone.
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When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.
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As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.
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I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.
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Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.
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If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
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We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.
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No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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[People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries is gonna require us to manage technology and global integration and all these demographic shifts in a way that makes people feel more control, that gives them more confidence in their future.
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Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.
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The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.
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