“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordOctober 31, 2007
I do not believe that we can remove troops at the pace that Governor Richardson was talking about.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
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presidency.ucsb.edu

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Interview with Michael Gordon and Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times

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