08/28/2008
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"The president said there was a systemic breakdown. I thought that was a very smart and courageous thing to say."
"Let's get to the bottom of it, and then -- look, somebody needs to swing at the end of a rope here."
"Just because you don't go out and run your mouth every day, and you sit and you do the job, that's fine with me."
"If this thing doesn't come through, it will be viewed as a setback for the president. But presidents have setbacks, and I suspect that he'll be able to recover from that."