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Barack Obama: Responsibility for our children's success doesn't start in Washington. It starts in our homes and our families.

On the recordDecember 15, 2008
Responsibility for our children's success doesn't start in Washington. It starts in our homes and our families.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Chicago Announcing the Nomination of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education

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