One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
Barack ObamaWhat I've said to [my team] is, "Look, we ran our leg of the race and we did a darn good job."
Barack ObamaThe point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.
Barack ObamaI think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and worked at the state level, then you're pretty familiar with all the variations of politics in the African American community and criticisms you may get. If you're not familiar with those or you don't have a thick enough skin to take it, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here.
Barack ObamaThe fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.
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