“New Yorkers deserve the choice to endure less suffering, not by shortening their lives, but by shortening their deaths.”
“Democrats have gone further and further and further to the left with no end in sight.”

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On the recordDecember 26, 2007
Most of all, I believed in the power of the American people to be the real agents of change in this country.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
Source
presidency.ucsb.edu

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