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This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are.
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
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With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.
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When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.
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To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
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As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own personal biography and affiliations with the demands of the broader democracy. And you need to make sure you are representing everybody.
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One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.
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What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.
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We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS.
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In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.
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So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.
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Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country
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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
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All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.
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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
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If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.
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The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.
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