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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.
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Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.
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Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.
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There is no shame in confusion or fear. There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us.
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You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
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I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.
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Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.
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I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.
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Change has come to America.
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If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
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We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.
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Good afternoon, everybody-ugh, Jesus, gimme a sec.
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The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.
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I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources.
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When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.
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You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.
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If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.
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