Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.
Barack ObamaAny fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Barack ObamaI don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.
Barack ObamaUnless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
Barack ObamaI could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.
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