My main message in today's message was very simple, that America's banks received extraordinary assistance from American taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that they're back on their feet, we expect an extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy.
Obama emphasizes the expectation for banks to contribute to the economy after receiving taxpayer assistance.
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It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.
While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.
Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.
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