You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
BARACK OBAMATake off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
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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.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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