The president of the United States is supposed to lead the free world and not follow it. Other nations have been more outspoken. So, I hope that we'll hear more of this because young men and women taking to the streets in Tehran need our support. The signs are in English. They're basically asking for us to speak up on their behalf.
Barack ObamaOne of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.
Barack ObamaI just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.
Barack ObamaIf we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.
Barack ObamaAll this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.
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