Quote by Barack Obama
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And thats just not what the founders intended. – Barack Obama

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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. – Barack Obama

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Freedom
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One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. – Barack Obama

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great
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama

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Friendship
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. – Henry David Thoreau

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Government

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and thats what Im doing. – Andrew Cuomo

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Government

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad. – Iain Duncan Smith

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Government

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. – Shana Alexander

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sad

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

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I love sports and I love sports movies. – James Van Der Beek

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