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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.
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At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.
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While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.
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The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.
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For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.
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Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.
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I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one.
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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
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We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.
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The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards sometime that seem back.
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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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There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about the dislocations brought on by globalisation. Many of those frustrations are legitimate and they need to be addressed.
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In the midst of this enormous economic crisis, I think Canada has shown itself to be a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we always - haven't always been here in the United States.
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It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.
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Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.
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To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.
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They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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