This kind of inequality - a level that we havenโt seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... Thatโs why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. Itโs also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.
Barack ObamaThe president of the United States is supposed to lead the free world and not follow it. Other nations have been more outspoken. So, I hope that we'll hear more of this because young men and women taking to the streets in Tehran need our support. The signs are in English. They're basically asking for us to speak up on their behalf.
Barack ObamaThey, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
Barack ObamaHe described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.
Barack Obama[Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are interested in building up their countries rather than destroying them, and doing so in a way that is sustainable and doesn't put a constant burden on the amazing men and women that we've got in uniform.
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