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  America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America

  3.1 · 50 votes · 4 reads

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  America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to mak

  3.3 · 23 votes · 82 reads

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  America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

  3.0 · 23 votes · 69 reads

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  Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

  4.5 · 13 votes · 192 reads

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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 American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

  5.0 · 15 votes · 77 reads

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  And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care pl

  4.2 · 10 votes · 127 reads

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  And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, ma

  4.2 · 60 votes · 158 reads

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  Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries

  4.2 · 28 votes · 14 reads

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  As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  3.9 · 51 votes · 31 reads

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  As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

  3.7 · 12 votes · 143 reads

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  Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

  3.4 · 47 votes · 65 reads

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  But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

  4.2 · 23 votes · 67 reads

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  Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  4.4 · 58 votes · 127 reads

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  Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  3.5 · 57 votes · 9 reads

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  Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  4.0 · 16 votes · 63 reads

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  Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  4.5 · 39 votes · 19 reads

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  Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises

  4.1 · 62 votes · 176 reads

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  I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  3.4 · 58 votes · 85 reads

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  I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usuall

  4.7 · 5 votes · 101 reads

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  I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

  3.2 · 19 votes · 35 reads

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  I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

  4.8 · 23 votes · 115 reads

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  I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  4.7 · 9 votes · 67 reads

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  I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

  4.0 · 14 votes · 182 reads

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  I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

  4.3 · 56 votes · 38 reads

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  I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

  3.6 · 45 votes · 32 reads

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  I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best

  3.7 · 29 votes · 35 reads

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  I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, beli

  3.3 · 56 votes · 192 reads

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  I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

  4.0 · 56 votes · 3 reads

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  I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

  4.6 · 58 votes · 48 reads

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  I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  4.7 · 38 votes · 64 reads

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  I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

  3.6 · 36 votes · 157 reads

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  I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treate

  4.5 · 38 votes · 166 reads

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  I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

  4.2 · 20 votes · 67 reads

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  I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

  3.2 · 52 votes · 24 reads

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  I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

  4.5 · 47 votes · 170 reads

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  I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it

  3.4 · 27 votes · 11 reads

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  I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  4.9 · 12 votes · 111 reads

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  I'm going to try to unite all Americans.

  3.0 · 64 votes · 117 reads

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  I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the f

  4.4 · 57 votes · 40 reads

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  I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

  3.2 · 44 votes · 176 reads

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