No President of the United States could represent the United States were he not committed to human rights. If you don’t understand this, you can’t deal with us. President Barack Obama would not be able to stay in power if he did not speak of it. So look at it as a political imperative. It doesn’t make us better or worse. It’s who we are. You make your decisions. We’ll make ours.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "No President of the United States could represent the United States were he not committed to human rights. If you don’t understand this, you can’t deal with us. President Barack Obama would not be able to stay in power if he did not speak of it. So look at it as a political imperative. It doesn’t make us better or worse. It’s who we are. You make your decisions. We’ll make ours." in the context of "Joe Biden in a conversation with Xi Jinping, as quoted in Osnos, Evan (6 April 2012). "Born Red: How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China's most authoritarian leader since Mao." The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 October 2019. Archieved from the original on October 10, 2019." to mean that wisdom is timeless.