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And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the Ame...
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As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem tha...
BARACK OBAMA
Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the b...
BARACK OBAMA
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are ...
BARACK OBAMA
Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send t...
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We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eigh...
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America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
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We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more disso...
BARACK OBAMA
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we...
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There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, al...
BARACK OBAMA
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible,...
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I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was n...
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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though somethin...
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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over la...
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the ...
BARACK OBAMA
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.
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In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the gli...
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I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's m...
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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones tha...
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Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United Sta...
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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit ...
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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual ac...
BARACK OBAMA
I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one...
BARACK OBAMA
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
BARACK OBAMA
We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a cert...
BARACK OBAMA
We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges...
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I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to p...
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If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax ...
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only wa...
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdate...
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This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its be...
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