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"In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed."
"If you want some additional money for your school, we'll give it to you. But you've got to compete, show us that you're going to reform your education system so that our children are performing better."
"We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although I'm a proud Democrat, I'm a prouder American. And I think all of us believe, regardless of our party affiliations, that this is a critical time, where we've got to solve big problems."
"We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues."
"With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out."
"Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else."
"But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics."
"The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime."
"You bomb ISIL. You're not trying to bomb innocent people. And that requires intelligence and confidence in our military to be able to develop the kinds of targets that we need. We're already doing Special Forces, who are going to help us gather that intelligence and help advise and assist and train local forces so that they can go after ISIL in areas like Raqqah and Mosul."
"We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own."
"Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful."
"What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice."
"I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe."
"People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young."
"If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices."
"I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs."
"People who have health insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of, everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make to seniors getting prescription drug discounts under Medicare to free mammograms."
"I don't think Donald Trump is ideological."
"I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle."
"How Donald Trump reaches out to groups that may not have supported him, how he signals his interest in their issues or concerns, I think those are the kinds of things that can set a tone that will help move things forward once he has actually taken office."