Barack Obama said "Everything you instilled in them -- the virtues of service and decency and duty -- were on display that December day." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 4, 2010

Everything you instilled in them -- the virtues of service and decency and duty -- were on display that December day.

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Barack Obama

Democratic · Illinois

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presidency.ucsb.edu

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Press Release - President Obama and CIA Director Panetta Speak at CIA Memorial Service

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