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What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
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At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.
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I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind.
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The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.
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I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.
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Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.
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You like pie? I like pie.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed
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When you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your bills, then you become more worried about what other folks are doing. And sometimes that organizes itself around kind of a tribal attitude, and issues of race become more prominent.
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