Barack Obama said "If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 3, 2007

If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first.

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Obama quoting Gandhi on the importance of self-transformation as a precursor to global change.

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