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We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.


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BARACK OBAMA Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a w...
BARACK OBAMA To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are...
BARACK OBAMA To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hea...
BARACK OBAMA Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs,...
BARACK OBAMA 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.
BARACK OBAMA 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.
BARACK OBAMA Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the...
BARACK OBAMA In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
BARACK OBAMA The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to hap...
BARACK OBAMA If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible;...
BARACK OBAMA 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
BARACK OBAMA 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...
BARACK OBAMA When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact ...
BARACK OBAMA 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...
BARACK OBAMA Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you...
BARACK OBAMA If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we bec...
BARACK OBAMA Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great d...
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