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I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.
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Don't let your failures define you.
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You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.
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