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Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.
Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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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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You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.
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I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
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We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.
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I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.
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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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I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.
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The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.
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It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.
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What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions.
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Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger
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I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.
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Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.
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A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.
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Democracy is hard work.
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If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.
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What has made America the wealthiest, most successful country on Earth historically has been our commitment to education.
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Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.
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We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.
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