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Barack Obama: We've got responsibilities, yes, to ourselves, but also to each other.

On the recordJanuary 26, 2012
We've got responsibilities, yes, to ourselves, but also to each other.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

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