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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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"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
"When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views."
"If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly."
"This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi."
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
"The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions."
"As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine."
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"But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it."
"I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement."
"If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared."
"This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats."
"No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs."
"We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody."
"Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this."
"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this."
"But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people."
"You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state."
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