We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.
Barack ObamaI, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.
Barack ObamaIt betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
Barack ObamaStarting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
Barack ObamaWe 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.
Barack ObamaI take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.
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