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I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
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The other reason might be that you want to talk to voters when you've got seven primaries in seven days. Understand what's happened in this race - where we campaign actively in a state, and voters have the chance to see me directly, they check under the hood, and they kick the tires, when we don't have as much time.
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Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.
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And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan.
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We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.
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I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.
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I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.
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Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
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I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.
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The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.
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