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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.
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America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.
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At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better
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Senator Joe Biden is pretty clean and articulate for a white guy.
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Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.
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Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.
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Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.
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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
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