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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.

Barack Obama

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.
BARACK OBAMA

Born Children Determination Dreamss Ethics Life
I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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Agree Appreciate Man Marriage Past Woman
Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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Love Offense Respect
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
BARACK OBAMA

God Justice Liberty Patriotism Power Wealth
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Belief Birth Freedom Religious Right Women
You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
BARACK OBAMA

Business Path Progress Right Success Walk
We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
BARACK OBAMA

Behind Each Other Leaving Let Go Praise
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
BARACK OBAMA

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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
BARACK OBAMA

Book Children Hands Learning Possible Reading
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Ambition Focus Life Poverty Realize Yourself
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
BARACK OBAMA

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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
BARACK OBAMA

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