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"If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not in there at least making an argument that, "Hey, you know what? It's the Democrats who are trying to raise your minimum wage.""
"If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected."
"[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way."
"I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one."
"I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible."
"I think that [having not a lot of time sweating the details] can be both a strength and a weakness. I think it depends on how [Donald Trump] approaches it. If it gives him fresh eyes, then that can be valuable. But it also requires you knowing what you don't know and putting in place people who do have the kinds of experience and background and knowledge that can inform good decision making."
"You have to have a strong team around you [being a president]."
"When I talked to [Donald Trump] about - our intelligence agencies, what I've said to him is - is that there are gonna be times where you've got raw intelligence that comes in and in my experience, over eight years, the intelligence community is pretty good about saying, "Look, we can't say for certain what this means." But there are gonna be times where the only way you can make a good decision is if you have confidence that the process is working, and the people that you put in charge are giving you their very best assessments."
"The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them from vote tampering, but also to make sure that we understand when propaganda is being churned through the system."
"I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are."
"I don`t know if Donald Trump`s ever been to an actual polling place, but, you know, he doesn`t even worry if what he says is true. This is just about him worried that he`s losing."
"We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe."
"The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe."
"My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans."
"I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law."
"I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts."
"Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis."
"If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses."
"Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses."
"We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power."