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Barack Obama: I do not want us to look back 20 years from now and say, you know what, this is--this was the moment when we started…

On the recordMarch 7, 2011
I do not want us to look back 20 years from now and say, you know what, this is--this was the moment when we started thinking small instead of thinking big.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Fundraiser in Boston

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