One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
Barack ObamaMaking your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
Barack ObamaUltimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.
Barack ObamaIf we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.
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