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Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

From Barack Obama

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

From Barack Obama

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

From Barack Obama

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

From Barack Obama

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

From Barack Obama

I'm going to try to unite all Americans.

From Barack Obama

That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.

From Barack Obama

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

From Barack Obama

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

From Barack Obama

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

From Barack Obama

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