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Barack Obama Politician
Jobs

"One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents."

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Barack Obama Politician
Jobs

"Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive."

Jobs United States Investing
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Barack Obama Politician
Jobs

"What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it."

Jobs Opportunity Creating
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Barack Obama Politician
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"What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created."

Jobs Looks Growth
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Barack Obama Politician
Jobs

"What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class."

Jobs Class Hard Work
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Barack Obama Politician
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"It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…"

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Barack Obama Politician
Jobs

"I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them."

People Thinking Jobs
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Barack Obama Politician
Jobs

"In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again."

Jobs Order Creating
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Barack Obama Politician
Jobs

"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."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to be a time at which point debt has to be taken care of."

Jobs Taken Debt
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Barack Obama Politician
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"I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But 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."

People Thinking Jobs
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Barack Obama Politician
Jobs

"If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own economic future, because China, Germany - they're making these [clean energy] investments. And I'm not going to cede those jobs of the future to those countries. I expect those new energy sources to be built right here in the United States."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be."

Jobs President Faults
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Barack Obama Politician
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"What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth."

Jobs Opportunity Creating
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