I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
Barack ObamaLet me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.
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We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.
Barack ObamaHope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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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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If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.
Barack ObamaWe may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
Barack Obamait’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations - to try to impose some order on the chaos, and make sense out of that which seems senseless.
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And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.
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