After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.
Barack ObamaThere's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.
Barack ObamaThe spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.
Barack ObamaI was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side.
Barack Obaman case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.
Barack ObamaI believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.
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