My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.


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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little o...
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're tu...
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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a ...
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been t...
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has...
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and ar...
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify th...
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
BARACK OBAMA
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching peop...
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The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along...
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The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sen...
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old...
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not l...
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I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years ...
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or t...
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of ...
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I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval ...
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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptiona...
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Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a w...
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To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are...
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To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hea...
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs,...
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to ...
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America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past...
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been...
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the...
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to hap...
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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible;...
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America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate...
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In my heart I know you didn
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I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will pr...
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It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to oppos...
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact ...
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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can...
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You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism...
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you...
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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we bec...
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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great d...
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