11/30/2011
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"this was an occasion for both parties to come together, that it was time to do some healing"
"They showed that people working together across backgrounds and boundaries could hold America accountable to our highest ideals and bend the arc of history towards justice."
"We have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs."
"I will continue to work to forge bipartisan consensus."