We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we're all created equal.


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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...
BARACK OBAMA
Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching peop...
BARACK OBAMA
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 ...
BARACK OBAMA
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...
BARACK OBAMA
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 ...
BARACK OBAMA
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.
BARACK OBAMA
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 ...
BARACK OBAMA
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past...
BARACK OBAMA
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been...
BARACK OBAMA
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...
BARACK OBAMA
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...
BARACK OBAMA
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...
BARACK OBAMA
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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