If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings. … And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing. But it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months.
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
United States · b. 1961
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Served as President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Previously a United States Senator from Illinois, an Illinois state senator, a community organiser in Chicago and a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago.
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I was raised by a heroic single mom, wonderful grandparents -- made incredible sacrifices for me. … But I sure wish I had had a father who was not only present, but involved. Didn't know my dad. And so my whole life, I've tried to be for Michelle and my girls what my father was not for my mother and me. … I want to be a better father, a better husband, a better man.
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Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, The White House (Obama administration archive), 19 May 2013
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