You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.
Barack ObamaI would say this, I'll go back to those black ladies I was talking about who love them some Barack and love Michelle even more - and by the way, they are not middle-aged anymore, because I'm now middle-aged. So they're a little bit older. As fervent as they were, as excited and happy as they were when I was elected, they had to go to work the next morning. They still had trouble paying those bills. They might have still had a son who was in trouble with the law or couldn't get a job because of a felony record. They didn't stop being grounded.
Barack ObamaWith respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.
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