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On the recordFebruary 22, 2010
Reclaiming my time, if I can just make this point that however long we might talk to the people on that side of the aisle, they're not going to change their mind. They are the wrong people. I can tell you that I stood here for 7 years and made some powerful arguments, and I can't think of a single time when one of them stood up and said, Oh, my, I didn't realize that. I didn't think about it that way. I'm going to change my mind. It doesn't happen in the real world.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa
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Feb 22, 2010

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The speaker discusses the futility of changing the minds of political opponents.

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