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• President Obama answered questions on YouTube today. He was asked 7,500 times about legalizing marijuana. And that was just from Chad in Portland.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, President, Portland

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• President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

  Craig Ferguson

  Technology, President, Passionate

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• President Obama said that over 40 countries have offered to help the U.S. fight ISIS. Of course they said it the same way your friends do when they promise to help you move. 'Yeah just call me, you know, if I'm around. It'll be fun.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Fun, Moving

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• We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.

  Bev Perdue

  Country, Moving, Class

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• President Obama is sending troops back to Iraq. He said, 'Don't worry, we should not be there any longer than a Kardashian marriage.'

  David Letterman

  Iraq, Worry, President

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• President Obama is sending a couple hundred troops to Iraq. We spent six years trying to figure a way to get out of Iraq. And now we're back. But this time there is an exit strategy. Barack Obama has an exit strategy. In 2016, he's gone.

  David Letterman

  Couple, Years, Iraq

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• We know the president of the United States has no facts. No facts to back up his startling allegation that the former president of the United States, President Obama, wiretapped him in Trump Tower during the campaign.

  Anderson Cooper

  President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• With President Obama, we will move America forward.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Moving, America, President

  "Nancy Pelosi Speech Text: Read The House Minority Leader’s Democratic Convention Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• From day one, President Obama has made improving the quality of life for woman a top priority. It's why he created the White House Council on Women and Girls that I'm so proud to chair. Our directive was to look across the board at all of the federal agencies and determine what we could do to improve the quality of life for women and girls.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Girl, House, Priorities

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, President, Term

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• Iraq is so bad that President Obama phoned Hillary Clinton and asked her if she could start early.

  David Letterman

  Iraq, President, Clinton

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• Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

  Dick Cavett

  Gun, Trying, President

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.189, Henry Holt and Company

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• President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Numbers, Healthy

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• Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.

  Paul Ryan

  Philosophy, Believe, President

  "Ryan: Happy to cling to guns, religion" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. August 21, 2012.

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• President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Mistake, Long Ago

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• What President Obama has done so masterfully of late is to say, in so many words, "I'm signing this executive order permitting federal funding for stem cell research, but I realize that many good, moral people are opposed to this, and I don't take that lightly." I think we can be more civil and empathetic in our discussions of public policy, and I hope my book can be a contribution to that tone.

  Kevin Roose

  Book, Thinking, People

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• Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.

  Mark Skousen

  People, President, Addresses

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• So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

  Paul Ryan

  Retirement, Cutting, Europe

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Strong, Thinking, Important

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• If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Feelings, President

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Offering, President

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• President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mom, Fighting, Kansas

  Tom Vilsack's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

  Tom Vilsack

  Keys, Years, Office

  "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

  Tom Vilsack

  Commitment, Garden, Land

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• President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.

  Paul Ryan

  Years, Issues, Promise

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida,, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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