Barack Obama
speaker
4,433 appearances
175 recordings
60 series
first heard Dec 2012
last heard yesterday
Barack Obama’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Values every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold.
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Values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.
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It is our greatest inheritance.
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And what I heard on every continent as president is that when America...
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When American foreign policy lives up to our highest ideals, when we champion human rights and democracy and the sound stewardship of our planet, when we take the lead in eradicating disease and feeding the hungry and educating children, when we encourage cooperation between nations,
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instead of trying to dominate and bully and squeeze every advantage just because we can.
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And most of all, when we show through our example here at home that even a country as big and diverse as ours can make democracy work, it turns out all nations, including ours, become more prosperous and secure.
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And the world gets a little bit brighter.
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Informing our union, the founders fell terribly short of the declaration's promise.
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Leaving slavery intact.
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Allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who own property.
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But in drafting a constitution and a bill of rights, they did have the foresight, the genius to provide us with a framework that allows each generation to make our union more perfect.
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You seem to be grading her higher on her answer.
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For us to give in now, after all this country's been through, to cynicism and division would be a betrayal of our founding ideals.
Because we are a better nation than one that expels innocent young kids.
And the answer to your question, sir, and the next time I prefer you let me finish my statements before you ask that question, is this is the right thing to do for the American people.
I didn't ask for an argument.
I'm answering your question.
It is the right thing to do for the American people, and here's why.
Here's the reason.
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