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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
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Sense of empathy

My third piece of advice is to cultivate a sense of empathy — to put yourself in other people's shoes — to see the world from their eyes.

University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address, 2 June 2011

Good compromise, good legislation

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

New walls

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, 24th of July 2008, Time Magazine

Reverend Wright's sermons

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country — a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old — is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

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

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