Barack Obama

Politician

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, notable for his focus on hope, change, and healthcare reform through the Affordable Care Act.

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August 4, 1961
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"Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance."

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"I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules."

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"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."

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"A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears."

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"Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table."

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"I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

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"It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways."

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"We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want."

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"We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard."

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"It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy"

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"If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree."

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"We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up."

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"For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change."

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"History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags."

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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."

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"I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done."

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"The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education."

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"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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