When I look out at all of you, I feel confident because I know that as long as there are young people like you who still have hope and are still inspired by the possibilities of America, then there are going to be better days for this country. (Applause.) I know that we are going to come through this stronger than before.

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Like, I'm someone who, you know, I grew up in a conservative Jewish family, and I'm living in downtown Philadelphia in an extremely racially diverse city.

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By no means a way to puff myself, I would like to let you know that I grew up in an average middle-class family with no relatives who were professionals or even went to college.

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And one is that I'd like to know if you agree with former President Bill Clinton, who said in the past week that the European's policies that you've described here today are much like those of the Republicans in this country -- politics of austerity that would take us in the same direction as Europe -- if you agree with that.

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And if you think back, historically, people like Muskee, when, you know, Muskee was in New Hampshire, who I thought he was going to win big, then all of a sudden, people realized the guy has got a little bit of a temper.

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Not everybody can say they know qualified mountaineers: really, I would suggest if you don't know anyone who has the experience to go to somewhere like Plas y Brenin.

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So I think you know, I think people are beginning to see sense but it's, it's, you know what it's like in London, I mean in New York, you know you've got one Mayor who's got huge power and can bulldoze things through, it's much more difficult here.

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