"The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined."

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"The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined."

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"Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation."

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"The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it."

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"Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish."

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"It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution."

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"The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things."

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