If you ask me where we are today in politics, I think the instinct of everyone today, especially in the middle of this economic crisis, is that we should be pulling together and not pulling apart.

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But I ultimately am convinced that we should be able to put together a package that puts people back to work, makes us more energy independent, and saves our planet in the process.

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And when we look at objects that we want to group into one category, you know, if they're like each other, then, you know, we feel that they should have - that they should be lumped together.

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"At the end of the day, regardless of the result, we should all be together as Americans and say that the law was properly applied, " he said.

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We came together because of a shared belief that in America, your success should not be determined by the circumstances of your birth.

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And he also believes that we can and should move forward to see if we can find common ground on this -- the general proposition that we can move together and take action to reduce our deficit in what the President believes should be a balanced way.

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Thanks to the commitment and constructive spirit of the members of the Bureau, the Committee and other Parties that are not members of the Committee, to whom I should like to pay tribute, I am convinced that we will be able to meet these challenges together.

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We should not assume that the interests of advertisers and users of street furniture, or streets, will be brought together by the invisible hand of local government.

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"Now, I think we should get together with our partners and try and construct a new kind of European Union and that would be in the interests of everyone".

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And I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this, and that everybody pulls together -- federal, state and local -- to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened.

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