01/12/2009
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"Investments in education, innovation, and infrastructure are an essential downpayment on our future."
"We cannot allow gridlock to prevail."
"We need a balanced approach to deficit reduction."
"When a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now."