And if people tell you that we can't do it, we can't afford it, you just remind them we're spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. If we can spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can spend some of that money right here in the United States of America.
Barack Obama highlights the need for domestic spending by comparing it to military expenditures in Iraq.
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And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.
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