Barack Obama quote: "We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense."

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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately ...
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We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times...
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Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doc...
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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very...
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help t...
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All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the re...
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We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from so...
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I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americ...
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing,...
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we...
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the ci...
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Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think t...
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts ...
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fea...
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should ha...
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share...
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In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous...
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative ...
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce...
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That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the...
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No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply bec...
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordi...
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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.
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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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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrap...
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney a...
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq....
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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal ...
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I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got...
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this o...
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you sta...
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more ...
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. E...
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and ...
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Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. Tha...
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessne...
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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come...
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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the bu...
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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a...
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active bla...
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We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face ...
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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a...
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work,...
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must ...
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this...
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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the a...
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody sho...
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I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving...
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our...
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has ...
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the Afri...
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young...
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be exce...
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As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all o...
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of Amer...
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In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - in...
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must b...
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing...
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We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadil...
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'...
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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 ...
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't h...
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour ...
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for ...
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear p...
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I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, yo...
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their ...
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullie...
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We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives...
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the m...
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Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable ill...
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any for...
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After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no...
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but yo...
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it ended up not being a very big deal.
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I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
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I didn't know Lenin was a player,
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Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, ...
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without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace and earn the respect of the world.
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I don't understand how you could have a situation where you've got several days' notice of an enormo...
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And Illinoisans want a Senate candidate who will attack the problems they and their families face ra...
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John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing ...
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I find it unbelievable that the EPA would continue to drag its feet despite the fact that their own ...
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We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there'...
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Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and whe...
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today ...
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After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it i...
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I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger toget...
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice th...
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When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Att...
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Seriou...
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no plac...
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. T...
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear n...
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Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believe...
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We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a mat...
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who star...
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What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't poss...
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of lib...
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We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that w...
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder...
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that inc...
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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of ...
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The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surpris...
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected ...
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I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and ta...
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applau...
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to peopl...
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gay...
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the crim...
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership f...
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I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the ne...
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an ove...
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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 hav...
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And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the Ame...
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As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem tha...
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Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the b...
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are ...
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Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send t...
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We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eigh...
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America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
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We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more disso...
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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we...
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There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, al...
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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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I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was n...
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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though somethin...
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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over la...
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the ...
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In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.
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In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the gli...
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I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's m...
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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones tha...
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Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United Sta...
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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit ...
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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual ac...
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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one...
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
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We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a cert...
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We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges...
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I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to p...
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If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax ...
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only wa...
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdate...
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This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its be...
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