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Barack Obama: Having said that, I want to repeat: Compromise, by definition, means taking some things you don't like.

On the recordDecember 21, 2010
Having said that, I want to repeat: Compromise, by definition, means taking some things you don't like.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's News Conference

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