12/14/2008
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"Our top priority has to be jobs and growth."
"And that's the idea at the core of the plan that I talked about on the campaign trail over the last year: rewarding manufacturers and small businesses that create jobs here, not overseas."
"We should not hold the middle class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the wealthy."
"If Senator McCain and Senator Graham, and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. And I'm happy to have that discussion with them. But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador who h..."