05/08/2012
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"The proposal. It's not the deal, it's the proposal. The Republicans have not come with a counter proposal."
"I think John Boehner got the better of the president frankly, speaker Boehner, in the last negotiations that they had in 2011."
"The American government has never defaulted on its debt. And now there are some, not the majority of Republicans even, but there are some on the extreme of the Republican Party, and they seem to be in..."
"The Republicans can't take yes for an answer, because they are not really fighting for lower taxes. They're fighting for the upper 2 percent of income earners and that's a losing proposition."