We can diminish poverty if we approach it in two ways: by taking mutual responsibility for each other as a society, and also by asking for some more individual responsibility to strengthen our families.
Obama proposing a dual approach to reducing poverty through societal and individual responsibility.
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This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.
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.
That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.
While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.
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