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So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action. I've got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won't. Where congress isn't acting, I'll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that is all I need.
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