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You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected.
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I think that America has to stand with democracy.
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A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
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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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We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.
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The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.
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The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
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The emotions between the races could never be pure even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.
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Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.
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The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.
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The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.
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And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
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Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
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