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B. B. King Musician
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"Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"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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Barack Obama Politician
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"What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy."

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Patti Davis Author, Actress
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"I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally."

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Paul Ryan Politician
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"Here`s the problem with the tax code. You send your money to Washington and then a few have a special carve out for your business, for your industry, if you do something Washington approves of, then they`ll let you keep some of your money back."

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