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I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
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If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
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We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.
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I don't believe people should to be able to own guns.
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My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
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Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
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Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.
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We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country
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But shouldn't we also quit marketing murder as a game?
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Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
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And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes when life is easy and when life is tough.
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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.
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As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.
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But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.
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One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.
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My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.
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