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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world — one that makes you understand that your obligations to others extend beyond people who look like you and act like you and live in your neighborhood.

University of Massachusetts at Boston Commencement Address, 2 June 2012

Was born on: 04.08.1961
About Author: 44th and current President of the United States
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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.'

Nuclear power

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

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

Race cannot be ignored

But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America — to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

Obama Speech on Race, 2008

Defeat terror and extremism

This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it. This threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it [...] If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London and Bali; in Washington and New York. If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast majority of Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of hope.

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

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