Barack Obama

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"I believe crime is like any other epidemic—we need to stop it before it starts." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"For the first time in 40 years, America's crime rate and incarceration rate went down at the same time." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"This is a cause that is bringing people in both houses of Congress together." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Mass incarceration makes our country worse off—and we need to do something about it." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Our criminal justice system isn't as smart as it should be." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Our nation is being robbed of men and women who could be workers and taxpayers." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Around one million fathers are behind bars. Around one in nine African-American kids has a parent in prison." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"African Americans are more likely to be arrested. They are more likely to be sentenced to more time for the same crime." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"A growing body of research shows that people of color are more likely to be frisked, stopped, questioned, detained." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"African Americans and Latinos make up 30 percent of our population. They make up 60 percent of our inmates." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Roughly one-third of the Justice Department's budget now goes toward incarceration." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"For $80 billion we could double the salary of every high school teacher in America." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Every year, we spend $80 billion to keep those folks incarcerated." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"In far too many cases the punishment does not fit the crime." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Over the last few decades, we've locked up more and more nonviolent drug offenders for longer than ever before." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"If we're going to deal with this problem, and the inequities involved, we're going to have to speak honestly." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Our prison population has doubled in the last two decades alone." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"In 1980, there were 500,000 people behind bars in America ... Today, there are 2.2 million." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"The United States is home to 5 percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of the world's prisoners." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"In too many cases our criminal justice system becomes a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"There is a long history of inequity in the criminal justice system in America." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"We can't be satisfied—are not satisfied—until the opportunity gap is closed for everybody in America." —President Obama #NAACP106 — PolitiTweet.org

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"Health care is not a privilege for the few, but a right for all of us." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"We made progress, but our work is not done." —President Obama #NAACP106 — PolitiTweet.org

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"I would not be here and so many others would not be here without the NAACP." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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"Let's get something out of the way up front: I am not singing today." —President Obama — PolitiTweet.org

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LIVE: The President is speaking about criminal justice reform at the @NAACP National Convention. http://t.co/vLXYuipYK5 #NAACP106 — PolitiTweet.org

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Tune in at 4:05 p.m. ET to watch President Obama deliver remarks at the @NAACP's National Convention: http://t.co/RD2DOysaor #NAACP106 — PolitiTweet.org

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Congratulations to @NASANewHorizons on completing a three-billion-mile journey. #PlutoFlyby http://t.co/cRaz9aSe7K — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WhiteHouse: Full video: Watch @POTUS speak on the historic deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. #IranDeal http://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org