Barack Obama Quotes
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If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not in there at least making an argument that, "Hey, you know what? It's the Democrats who are trying to raise your minimum wage."
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
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You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.
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If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not in there at least making an argument that, "Hey, you know what? It's the Democrats who are trying to raise your minimum wage."
