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Barack Obama talks about moving forward while knowing the road isn’t straight. He says we must spot both the problems and the gains, and act now to overcome fear and frustration. He also mentions that many people want a new kind of politics to keep progress alive.

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There's no straight line to progress.

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Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.

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We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are…

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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us…

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We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in…

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I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we…

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One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot…

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That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy,…

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I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize…

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By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful…

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The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?"…

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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and…

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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job…

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I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in…

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I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are…

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The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our…

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The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50…

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America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress…

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The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not.…

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I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect…

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I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about…

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We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and…

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Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We…

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It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,…

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I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the…

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We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out…

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Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and…

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It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,…

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Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and…

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Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that…

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We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get…

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We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like…

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Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common…

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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a…

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Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of…

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I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to…

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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the…

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Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success…

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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

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It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us…