The conditions played a part but, at the same time, we can do better.
Given the carnage in Newtown as the latest example, journalists should demand whether we can do better.
"It's forcing us to look at our site and see what we can do better, " says Larry Chase, president.
We have set out an honest appraisal of what we can do better, and how we will ensure those improvements happen quickly.
And the fact is, we can do better -- all of us.
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If expanding these work-based visas is the only option then I fully endorse this proposal, but I think we can do better.
While I am happy we were able to squeeze a few more dollars for school lunch programs, I think we can do better.
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We can do better to make sure that fewer parents have to endure the pain of losing a child to an act of violence.
Senator GEORGE VOINOVICH (Republican, Ohio): I believe we can do better.
Yes, services provided by the state can and do truly help the poor, but the question should always be whether or not we can do better.
At this stage we are just going in hoping for the best but it is difficult to say if we can do better than we did in 1999.
He admitted that when it came to the disposal of rubbish, "everybody who looks at what's happening with packaging and all the waste we create knows we can do better there".
But we can make a difference if not just the activists here on this stage but the general public -- including responsible gun owners -- say, you know what, we can do better than this.
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In fact, when Brown talked about scrapping the health reform effort and starting over because "we can do better, " the Republican crowd started a chant that had to send a tiny shiver down the spine of even the most confident White House staffer.
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It's clearly a sentence written by a committee: you can tell that one faction wanted to go with "America can do better" while another favored "Together, we can do better" to get the unity theme in there, so they decided to split the difference.
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Perhaps we are replacing 14-hour-unhappy-unfulfilled days at the office with the same number of hours when working for ourselves, but most of us realize there is so much more we can do better on our own without having to put up with bosses, corporate edicts and designated days off.
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That's why they're here today, because they're going to take that food that you get in the schools and do some special stuff to show that with the food that we have, we can probably do even better than we're doing.
You know, saying we can do a better job of protecting the ports, the airports.
Are there ways that we can do a better job negotiating for better prices?
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But we can do even better -- in building a 21st century economy for all Americans.
We think we can do it better and help these companies save money.
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