"The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments."
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"I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them."
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"You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy."
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"We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better."
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"In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again."
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"To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece."
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"I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people."
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"You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people."
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"Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us."
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"It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves."
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"My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward."
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"I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things."
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"I don't expect that the president-elect [Donald Trump] will follow exactly our blueprint or our approach, but my hope is that he does not simply take a real-politic approach and suggest that, you know, if we just cut some deals with Russia, even if it hurts people or even if it violates international norms, or even if it leaves smaller countries vulnerable or creates long-term problems in regions like Syria, that we just do whatever is convenient at the time."
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"It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers."
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"One of the things that I've urged the president-elect to do is to develop a strong working relationship with the intelligence community and I think it's important that Congress, on a bipartisan basis."
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"There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections."
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"Our intelligence communities spend a lot of time and effort gathering a lot of strands and a lot of data [on Russian hacking]. There are times where they're very cautious and they say, "We think this is what happened, but we're not certain.""
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"Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo."
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"African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble."
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"The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right."
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