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I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds