Barack Obama

president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 (born 1961)

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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Humor

I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.

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Humor

Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.

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Keluarga

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

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Kejujuran

For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye.

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Kepemimpinan

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.

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Kesabaran

We are the change we have been waiting for.

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Cinta

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

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Kehidupan

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

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Kepemimpinan

To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

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Seni

Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people.

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Waktu

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

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Sukses

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

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Alam

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

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Kehidupan

We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

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Keberanian

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

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Kehidupan

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

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Kehidupan

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

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Kehidupan

None of These Will Come Easy.

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Doa

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.

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Motivasi

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

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