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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.
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I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].
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We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
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I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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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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One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.
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If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.
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Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.
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America can't provide health care to people who need it. We can't invest in science and technology, which will determine whether or not we are going to be competitive in the long term. There has never been a country on Earth that saw its economy decline and yet maintained its military superiority.
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One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.
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So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.
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