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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.
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We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
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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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It's time to stop being ambivalent. ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
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In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed.
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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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Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.
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