"Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me."

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One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.

— Barack Obama