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Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
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I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.
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The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.
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I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
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I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.
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It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
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