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In America, we want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they're going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war. That's our purpose.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page it is an embodiment of our values.
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Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.
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So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
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Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.
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The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united.
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Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.
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Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues.
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What I said to Donald Trump was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or passion during elections may be different than what will work in terms of unifying the country and gaining the trust even of those who didn't support him.
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You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.
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We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.
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There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.
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The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
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We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.
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With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.
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One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.
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