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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
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The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.
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Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
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I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.
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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
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To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE.
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What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party - the more centrist wing of the party. I think we can craft an approach that is more American, pro-worker, pro-business, pro-growth.
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Three months is a lifetime in politics.
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Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
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If we got there and we looked up and we said, You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago, then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.
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I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] Working when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that shimmering quality of people's everyday struggles.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.
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What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.
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The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.
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I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.
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The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.
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I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.
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