Reconciliation carries more rewards than retribution.
Barack Obama: “Reconciliation carries more rewards than retribution.”
On the recordDecember 26, 2016
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Remarks With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at Joint Base Pearl Harbor—Hickam
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