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Barack Obama: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2010
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Release - The State of the Union Address - As Prepared for Delivery

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