It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack ObamaToday, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, itโs an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
Barack Obama[ William Ayers] is an example of what I'm talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
Barack ObamaThose are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.
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