“I’m inspired by the people I meet in my travels…hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I’m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I’m inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”
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“I was not raised in a religious household. For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. However, in her mind, a working knowledge of the world’s great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.
On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.”
Barack Obama
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“There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America. There’s the United States of America.”
Barack Obama
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“What makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.”
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“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”
Barack Obama
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“Climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke.”
Barack Obama
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“While my opponent would spend more money on military hardware that our Joint Chiefs don’t even want, I’ll use the money we’re no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and put more people back to work – rebuilding roads and bridges; schools and runways. After two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, it’s time to do some nation-building right here at home.”
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“I have a job to do as president, and that does not involve convincing folks that my faith in Jesus is legitimate and real. I do my best to live out my faith, and to stay in the Word, and to make my life look more like His. What I can do is just keep on following Him, and serve others – trying to make folks’ lives a little better using this humbling position that I hold.”
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“Rape is rape. The idea that we should be parsing types of rape doesn’t make sense to the American people or to me. What these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.”
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“We want everybody to go to college, and we don’t want them going broke doing it.”
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“We’re not going to stop fighting to give our kids a world-class education, to make college more affordable, to make sure that by 2020 we have the highest rate of college attendance of any country in the world. So we proposed that graduates should only pay 10 percent of their income to pay back their student loans. Students like that. We’ll forgive student loan debt after 20 years. After 10 if you choose a career in public service. Because if you decide you want to be a teacher, if you decide you want to be a cop, if you’re not making huge amounts of money, we don’t want to discourage you from that because of the cost of college. And by the way, I’ve been there and Michelle has been there. It took us 10 full years to pay off Michelle’s student loans, 15 to pay mine off. I’ve been there. And our belief, and I think your belief, is in the United States of America nobody should go broke because they chose to go to college, and we don’t want them going broke doing it.”
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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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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
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“It’s great to be here this evening in the vast, magnificent Hilton ballroom…or what Mitt Romney would call a little fixer-upper.”
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“I see members of Congress being part of the climate-denier clubs and basically stiff-arming what we know are facts, and not rebutting them with other facts, but rebutting them with anecdote, just being dismissive, or ‘I’m not a scientist’. I’m not a scientist, either, but I know a lot of scientists. I have the capacity to understand science. I have the capacity to look at facts and base my conclusions on evidence.”
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“What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.”
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“You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.”
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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.”
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