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I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.

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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

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And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

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Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.

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Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

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We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.

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Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

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What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

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You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.

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One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

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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 American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?".

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The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference."

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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

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In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

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