Our democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders, lie everyday, and just make things up. I mean, and we've just become numb to it, we just become immune to it every single day.
Obama emphasizes the importance of truthfulness in leadership and the detrimental effects of dishonesty on democracy.
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The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.
That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.
Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.
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