On the recordNovember 19, 2015
Young people especially, you have to care about this a lot, because if you don't do anything about it, you're the ones who are going to have to deal with it.
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presidency.ucsb.eduBarack Obama: “Young people especially, you have to care about this a lot, because if you don't do anything about it, you're the ones…”
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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall at Taylor's University, Malaysia.
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