There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.
Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
I'm asking myself, 'What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?' Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
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