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Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.
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Leaving the broken system the way it is, that`s not a solution.
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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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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