"We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics."

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"We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

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"As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation."

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"But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved."

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