“I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And …”

“I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.”

— Barack Obama

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Informing the interviewer that he wasn't interested in merely being a financial success and moving to the suburbs, in "No Cushy Post for this Pioneer Harvard Law Review Chief Plans to Work in Inner City", by Allison J Pugh in The Akron Beacon-Journal (19 April 1990)

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Obama, Barack. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Barack Obama. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

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