"We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward."

Class, Economy, Middle class, Want

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"We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward."

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"I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction."

People

"I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point."

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"Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States."

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"We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody."

God

"People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run."

People

"I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher."

Consulting

"We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done."

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Consistency