Barack Obama actually said...

Our democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders, lie everyday, and just make things up. I mean, and we've just become numb to it, we just become immune to it every single day.

Context

Obama emphasizes the importance of truthfulness in leadership and the detrimental effects of dishonesty on democracy.

10/20/2020

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