Now, I wanted to lay out those differences before I talked about where I think we can work together.

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As Congress faces other pressing issues, "I think we can work together to ensure that whatever did pass succeeds, " he said.

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With the partial risk of putting off some people I want to say that I think we can bring the whole thing together as a consistent whole, not because I believe in a pluralistic notion of science or reality in which everyone has a perspective to contribute.

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"We don't want to have any kind of lost generation and I think in Norwich we can do something together about that, " Ms Smith said.

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But I think if we all work together and work together honestly, I think progress can indeed be made.

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So I think there -- what legislative vehicle many of these bipartisan ideas -- whatever -- it moves on, I think, is in some ways not quite as important as demonstrating that we can work together.

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So I think the President understands that each country has interests, and where we have mutual interests we can work together to make progress.

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"It's not guaranteed that the growth we're experiencing now will continue over the years, but I think overall we've acted smartly, G20 worked together well and I'm definitely optimistic that we can get through it, if we regulate the markets prudently and when we find the correct exit strategy after this expensive stimulus program, " she said.

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And I think today what we see is leaders coming together with a sense of a common purpose to address what ways Europe can, again, solidify its implementation of that plan and what ways the international community can express support for their efforts going forward.

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