Barack Obama: “For us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase.”

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

It shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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