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There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.
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Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.
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We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.
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The private sector is doing fine.
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Do something, Congress. Do anything.
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Everybody potentially can make the claim that we should all be treated fairly.
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I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
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