On the recordDecember 26, 2007
I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided politics to solve them.
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presidency.ucsb.edu“I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided politics to solve them.”
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