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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

~Barack Obama

Topics: American Child Decent Education Every Every American Everyone Felt Good Good Job Got Half Half Years Job Ladder Leave More Need Needs Out Paid Past Poverty Progress Raise Retirement Seven Still Who Work World-Class Years Yes

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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

~Barack Obama

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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

~Barack Obama

Topics: About American Atlantic Because Country Crossed Here How Last Like Look More Names Only Our Pacific Rio Something Strangers Taught Than Them Welcomed Were Whether Who Worship

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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

~Barack Obama

Topics: American Chance Commitment Created Equal Ideal Lives Make Makes Our Our Lives Shared Us Will

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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Also American City Community Divided East Eastern Eastern Europe Ethnic Europe Instability Know Man Marked Middle Middle East Missouri Notice Our Own Racial Small Summer Tensions Took Where World Yes Young Young Man

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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

~Barack Obama

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I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

~Barack Obama

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You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

~Barack Obama

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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.

~Barack Obama

Topics: All Americans American Going Try Unite

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But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

~Barack Obama

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