"I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up."
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"It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well."
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"I think I'm the best president I've ever been right now. And I think the team that is operating right now functions as well as any team that I've had. And so, you know, there is a part of you that thinks, "Man, we're pretty good at this stuff right now." And you hate to see that talent disperse."
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"I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance."
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"If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant."
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"I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to."
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"Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?"
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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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"Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see is how will the President-elect operate, and how will his team operate, when they've been fully briefed on all these issues, they have their hands on all the levers of government, and they've got to start making decisions."
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"Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here."
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"What I've said to [my team] is, "Look, we ran our leg of the race and we did a darn good job.""
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"That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment."
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"You have to have a strong team around you [being a president]."
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"You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks."
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"Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th President of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates."
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"Everyone on my team should be extraordinarily proud of what they have done."
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"We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and financial stability."
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"I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start. I would argue that I am the best president I've ever been over the last year or two. My team is more effective than it's ever been.But what is also true is that number one, this is grueling."
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"I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team."
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"When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging."
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