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The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.
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We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.
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I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
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You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people.
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This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.
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When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.
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Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.
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I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. And they shouldn't have to lie about who they are in order to serve.
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We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.
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Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.
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We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.
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I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.
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The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.
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Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country
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John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, Goodness gracious this is big and I better be up to the task.
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We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.
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In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.
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