PRESIDENT OBAMA: I think, you know, the interesting thing about now having been president for five years is it makes you humbler as opposed to cockier about what you as an individual can do. You recognize that you're just part of a sweep of history. And your job really is to push the boulder up the hill just a little bit before somebody else pushes it up a little further and the task never stops at perfecting our union. But what makes me more confident than ever is the interactions I have with young people like this all over the country who still believe in this country, still are optimistic fundamentally about their futures, are problem solvers, are practical.
The American people are good and they are decent. And yes, sometimes we get very divided partly because our politics and our media specifically tries to divide them and splinter them, but we've got so much stuff going for us that as long as any president stays close to the people, I think they're going to do all right.
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