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Barack Obama Politician
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"Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions."

Running Jobs Kings
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Barack Obama Politician
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"The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family."

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Barack Obama Politician
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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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Barack Obama Politician
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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."

Jobs Morning Son
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Barack Obama Politician
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"My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here."

Eye Jobs Vision
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Barack Obama Politician
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"I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow."

World Jobs America
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Barack Obama Politician
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"I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?"

Jobs Military Kings
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Barack Obama Politician
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"We've got to make sure that we rebuild the infrastructure in America, because we used to be - have the best bridges, the best roads, the best airports. And now, when you go to China or you go to Europe, you see that they are outstripping us in terms of infrastructure. And if we put people back to work, that would be good not only in the short term, but it would also lay the foundation, the framework for long-term economic and job growth."

Jobs Europe Bridges
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Barack Obama Politician
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"What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth in our economy are getting the kind of financing that they need."

Jobs Moving Growth
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Barack Obama Politician
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"It's probably a prerequisite for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the job. I think that [Donald Trump] has not spent a lot of time sweating the details of, you know, all the policies."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"[My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities."

Jobs Kids Teenager
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Barack Obama Politician
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"It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible."

Thinking Real Jobs
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Patti Smith Musician
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"One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her."

Jobs Mother Mom
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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do."

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