“The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.”
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“I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.”
“As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.”
“There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.”
“Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.”
“My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.”
“You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.”
“I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that.”
“I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.”
“I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.”
“In fact, the American people did decide, back in 2012, when they elected me president of the United States.”
“The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.”
“People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."”
“I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.”
“[Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there. It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions.”
“I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change.”