It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.
Barack Obamaperhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.
Barack ObamaUltimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.
Barack ObamaBut the basic principle that weโre going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that weโre going to have to do something with those assets.
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