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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"I do want to once again speak directly to the Iranian people. Yours is a great civilization with a vibrant culture that has so much to contribute to the world - in commerce and in science and in arts. For decades, your government's threats and actions to destabilize your region have isolated Iran from much of the world, and now our governments are talking with one another. Following the nuclear deal, you, especially young Iranians, have the opportunity to begin building new ties with the world."

Art Government Opportunity
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The United States and Iran are now settling a long-standing Iranian government claim against the United States government. Iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest but much less than the amount Iran sought. With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well."

Country Government Iran
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs."

Country Jobs Government
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets."

Government Support Principles
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks here in Washington rushed to declare that it was the start of another hostage crisis. Instead, we worked directly with the Iranian government and secured the release of our sailors in less than 24 hours."

Government Water Hostage Crisis
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see is how will the President-elect operate, and how will his team operate, when they've been fully briefed on all these issues, they have their hands on all the levers of government, and they've got to start making decisions."

Thinking Government Team
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin."

Thinking Government Mass Destruction
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts."

Government Smart Example
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis."

Government Care Issues
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses."

People Trying Government
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government."

People Government Guy
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results."

Government America Strong
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people."

People Long Government
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."

Thinking Government Crush
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation."

Government Problem Cooperation
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important."

Important Government Childhood
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation."

Two Government Party
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Barack Obama Politician
Government

"The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years, when we had larger majorities than Mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office."

Years Government Hard Work
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