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People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.
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I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.
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I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
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I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.
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It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.
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I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.
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I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.
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We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.
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When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.
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I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.
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The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.
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We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.
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It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.
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I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
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I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries around the world, even though we're not intimidated by terrorist organisations.
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There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.
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Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.
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