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Celebrities Share Favorite Moments with their Moms
Celebrities share their favorite moments with their mothers.
Original Content  |  January 01, 2006
Senator Barack Obama
Senator Barack Obama

Senator Barack Obama says lessons his mother taught him as a child continue to steer his politics today. "My mother taught me empathy—the basic concept of standing in somebody else's shoes and looking through their eyes. If I did something messed up, she'd just say, 'How would that make you feel if somebody did that to you?' That ends up being, I think, at the center of my politics, and I think that should be the center of all our politics. If we see a child who's languishing in an inner-city school, how would we feel if that was our child?"
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