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Barack Obama: “When folks say I can't do something, that's when I like to do it.”

On the recordDecember 13, 2007
When folks say I can't do something, that's when I like to do it.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Barack Obama expresses his determination to overcome challenges.

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