The Energy Security Trust is a common-sense proposal to use some of the revenue that we obtain in the form of royalties from offshore oil and gas production and invest it in research dedicated to alternative forms of energy.
Press Gaggle by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest
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And one of the most disturbing things about this election and about Trump's rise in politics is how we seem to have set the values we were taught aside, how we seem to disregard them, how we pretend they don't matter.
Look, politics, it's not going to solve all your problems. No president is going to eliminate poverty in one term or eliminate racism because those problems are hard. It -- it takes steps, a little bit at a time.
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