"Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas."
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"I personally think President [Hosni] Mubarak, who's done a lot for Egypt, should acknowledge that his time has come and step down right away."
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"If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President."
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"Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state."
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"President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world."
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"President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests."
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"There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?"
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"Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager."
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"President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers."
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"I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?"
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"Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it."
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"When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet."
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"The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment."
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"I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress."
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"You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president."
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"I do not yet know if I will find a Romney presidency more acceptable on foreign policy. But I do know that I must oppose the most recent statements made by Mitt Romney in which he says he, as president, could take us to war unilaterally with Iran, without any approval from Congress."
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"The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect."
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"There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making."
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"I would set aside all these budget cuts that are going to devastate the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the N.S.A. Sequestration, cuts, are not only gutting the military, they're gutting the F.B.I. So if I were president, I would set these cuts aside. I would reinstate the N.S.A. program as robust as possible within the constitutional limits."
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"The idea of foreign policy realism, I think, fits more neatly with President Trump. And with John McCain, the neoconservative label of let's make the world safe for democracy and we're going to topple every regime hasn't worked."
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