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"I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience."

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About Barack Obama

Barack Obama is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American to hold the office.

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