Now, he proved it in budget negotiations with the Republicans when he offered them right off the bat a trillion dollars in budget cuts over the next decade, and he said, now, can we make a deal more or less like the Simpson-Bowles deal?

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There are a few thousand crazies who can make trouble, but we can deal with that.

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Some people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and if we get a case like this in the Isle of Man this covenant would make sure we can deal with it efficiently.

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But that doesn't mean -- going back to the sort of overall premise of his speech -- that we can't or shouldn't continue to make progress to deal with what is an important issue and a priority of his.

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