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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing
4.6 · 23 votes · 182 reads
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Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq
3.3 · 8 votes · 170 reads
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Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply ho
4.8 · 16 votes · 119 reads
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
3.2 · 28 votes · 116 reads
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So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, o
4.5 · 47 votes · 142 reads
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So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
3.8 · 25 votes · 107 reads
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
4.6 · 14 votes · 83 reads
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
4.2 · 10 votes · 5 reads
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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
4.3 · 32 votes · 7 reads
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
3.9 · 13 votes · 137 reads
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
4.9 · 12 votes · 69 reads
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The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
3.5 · 12 votes · 8 reads
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Society
The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we
4.5 · 30 votes · 92 reads
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The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
3.5 · 32 votes · 38 reads
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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
5.0 · 21 votes · 55 reads
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
3.1 · 23 votes · 94 reads
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of o
3.7 · 43 votes · 158 reads
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
3.4 · 22 votes · 82 reads
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in polic
4.1 · 30 votes · 123 reads
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
4.3 · 19 votes · 121 reads
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a t
4.1 · 53 votes · 70 reads
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundre
4.4 · 39 votes · 144 reads
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
3.1 · 23 votes · 164 reads
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We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
3.4 · 26 votes · 173 reads
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
3.1 · 50 votes · 43 reads
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We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
4.4 · 7 votes · 7 reads
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We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
3.7 · 11 votes · 160 reads
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this
4.1 · 31 votes · 167 reads
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
3.8 · 37 votes · 177 reads
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Society
We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
4.0 · 7 votes · 66 reads
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
3.7 · 25 votes · 85 reads
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We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the r
4.6 · 18 votes · 165 reads
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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.
4.6 · 37 votes · 26 reads
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We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
4.7 · 13 votes · 128 reads
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We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.
3.2 · 9 votes · 190 reads
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or pa
4.0 · 29 votes · 12 reads
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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we hav
4.0 · 34 votes · 89 reads
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
4.0 · 32 votes · 43 reads
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to tra
4.2 · 18 votes · 129 reads
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Government and Politics
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
4.8 · 24 votes · 106 reads
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