"We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back."
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"[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him.""
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"We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional."
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"To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together."
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"I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House."
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"Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the United States to the brink of another Great Depression. When we spoke with the new president in March of 2009, the economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month, the government was throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at failing banks, and the auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Politically pummeled from all sides, Obama did his best to keep a sense of humor."
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"As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office."
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"I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are."
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"It's not appealing to deal with countries that express hatred towards us."
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"I would say this, I'll go back to those black ladies I was talking about who love them some Barack and love Michelle even more - and by the way, they are not middle-aged anymore, because I'm now middle-aged. So they're a little bit older. As fervent as they were, as excited and happy as they were when I was elected, they had to go to work the next morning. They still had trouble paying those bills. They might have still had a son who was in trouble with the law or couldn't get a job because of a felony record. They didn't stop being grounded."
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"I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff."
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"I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality."
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"Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th President of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates."
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"Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble."
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"At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground."
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"The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population."
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"It's up to [Angela Merkel] whether she wants to stand again and then ultimately, it'll be up to the German people to decide what the future holds. If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her."
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"I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years."
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"That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring."
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"You [Bill Maher] seem to have done alright with your TV show... I mean, I don't get a sense... to the extent that they're boycotting you, it's because of your other wacky views rather than your particular views on religion."
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