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I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

~Barack Obama

Topics: American Arms Battle Candidate Families Fathers Frustration Held Homes Jobs Just Know Longer Lost Means Mothers Pain President Return Send Shared Those Who Workers Young Young Americans

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Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

~Barack Obama

Topics: America Back Commerce Cuba Cuban Democracy Diplomatic Door Failed Fifty Had Improve Latin Latin America Lives Opened Ourselves People Promote Relations Restored Setting Travel Us Why Years

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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Around Everybody Good Spread Think Wealth You I Think

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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Hear Issues Me Never One Thing Proud Rarely Simple Simplify Thing Very Will You

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What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Accept Actions Asking Believe Better Better Future Change Cynical Easier Forsake Future Give Hard Hopeless Matter Now Our Politics Possible Then Up Voices

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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

~Barack Obama

Topics: African-American Criterion Disabled Empathy Gay Got Heart Judges Like Mom Need Old Poor Recognize Selecting Somebody Teenage Understand Which Young

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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

~Barack Obama

Topics: American Ancestors Anyone Back Become Citizens Citizenship Country Free Generations Get Go Included Like Might Millions Myself Notion Painstaking Pass Put Us Who Work

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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 we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Begin Begun Better Bit Blood Children Earnest Get Inhabit Just Just A Little Bit Leave Little Little Bit Lot Making Our Sure Sweat Tears Than Today Took Where Work World

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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Actions Cannot Collaborative Cooperation Degree Effective Enforcement Extraordinary Highest Intelligence International International Cooperation Planning Police Possibly Require Sharing Stakes Succeed Terror War We Cannot Where Without

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What Washington needs is adult supervision.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Adult Needs Supervision Washington

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: August 4th, 1961

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