01/04/2012
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"I think a lot of the propaganda and dogma that's churned out there is inaccurate."
"Democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, those are not simply principles of the West to be hoisted on these countries, but rather what I believe to be universal principles."
"I refused to let these companies become permanent wards of the state, kept afloat on an endless supply of taxpayer money."
"Part of what we want to affirm to the world is that these are values that are important even when it's hard."