The proposed Iranian nuclear agreement is classically an executive agreement and doesn't need to be a treaty with advice and consent of the Senate, but Congress should be able to opine given that congressionally mandated sanctions would have to be lifted.

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[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.

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Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

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Differences can be a strength.

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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

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It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

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Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

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Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

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Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

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Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

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Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

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There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

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I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good enough to make that decision, and she was right. I remember at the time I was shocked. I did not like that my mother said those things to me. But when I got a chance to play with Yo-Yo Ma or more recently with Aretha Franklin, I thought, I'm really glad she said what she did.

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Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

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If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

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You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.

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Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

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Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

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Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.

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We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

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