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Barack Obama

44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008

United States · b. 1961

Served as President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Previously a United States Senator from Illinois, an Illinois state senator, a community organiser in Chicago and a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago.

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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?

And finally, change requires more than just speaking out -- it requires listening, as well. In particular, it requires listening to those with whom you disagree, and being prepared to compromise. When I was a state senator, I helped pass Illinois's first racial profiling law, and one of the first laws in the nation requiring the videotaping of confessions in capital cases. And we were successful because, early on, I engaged law enforcement.

Recorded Howard University, Washington, D.C., The White House (Obama administration archive), 7 May 2016 source

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