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I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, not in my backyard.
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I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.
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Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
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If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.
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Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked.
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Owes unions who endorsed him that's why he's in politics.
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Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.
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I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.
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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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As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.
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It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship.
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I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.
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Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it.
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... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.
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But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.
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I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.
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