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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.
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The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen Iran level asymmetric attacks against their facilities or their interests.
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My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.
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The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.
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That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future.
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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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What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.
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I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go.
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The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.
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We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.
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I honor, we honor the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.
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There are enormous resources in Greece.
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I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.
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Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.
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To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.
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A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people.
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I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.
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