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Barack Obama: We are perfectly poised to make the 21st century again the American century.

On the recordMarch 3, 2011
We are perfectly poised to make the 21st century again the American century.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Dinner for Senator C. William Nelson and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Miami

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