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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama
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The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
Barack Obama
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama
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If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.
Barack Obama
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I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.
Barack Obama
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.
Barack Obama
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You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack Obama
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Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
Barack Obama
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama
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