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Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.
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I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.
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Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.
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Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen.
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The Russians sought to interfere with the election process - that the cyber hacking that took place by the Russians was part of that campaign, and that they had a clear preference in terms of outcomes.
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So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
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A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.
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Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.
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American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.
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On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
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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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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
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It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.
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