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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

MSNBC interview, Sep. 25, 2006

Was born on: 04.08.1961
About Author: 44th and current President of the United States
Photo Source: stern.de

Race

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle — as we did in the OJ trial — or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina — or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

Obama Speech on Race, 2008

Chance for something better

I hoped for something else.
It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream — one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.

Delivery, Center for American Progress

No more disown

I can no more disown him [Reverend Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

Obama Speech on Race, 2008

Belief in the impossible

America is an unlikely place — a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address, 2 June 2006

Walls around us

We can try to build walls around us, and we can look inward, and we can respond by being frightened and angry about those disruptions.

University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address, 2 June 2010

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