Well you may say that he is a practical and successful businessman and I will agree.

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You may say, well, let it shut down, what do I care?

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Ladies and gentleman, as you know we have something special down here at Birdland this evening... a recording for Blue Note records... when you applaud for the different passages, your hands go right out over the records there, so when they play them over and over, throughout over the country, you may be some place and say, well, uh, that's my hand on those records there, that I dug down at Birdland...

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But I think you can say this, that what Phelps did last week may well constitute the single most sustained success any athlete ever achieved in an intense period.

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But when you look at his, you know, 14 years in Congress and secretary of energy under Bill Clinton, and U.N. ambassador and two-term governor of New Mexico, you know, you compare him to some others who may have less experience and say, well, this guy has in a lot of rounded - a well-rounded resume.

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What they have to say (and who says it) may very well surprise you.

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Look, obviously the President is -- again, I'd refer you to the speech in May of 2009 that seeks to do -- well, I'd say broadly, the President does not believe that our national security and the protection of our homeland has to be in contradiction with our values as Americans.

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However you come down on this, it is fair to say that when it comes to taxes working class families may well end up worse off next year than they are today.

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