Barack ObamaI find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.
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From the time that I entered public life, it has always been my ambition to have an effect on national life, not just to serve in Parliament, but to have an effect on the nation. That is the mark I set myself. That is why I have signed up for office. It is why I am prepared to stand in all weathers in this House.
Source: The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream
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