There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.
Barack ObamaWithout regard to whether some place is wealthy or poor, everybody should have the chance at clean air and clean water.
Barack ObamaImagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.
Barack ObamaSometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.
Barack ObamaThe old rules may say we canโt protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, weโve always used new technologies - weโve used science; weโve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.
Barack ObamaSo Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.
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