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I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.
David Axelrod
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I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
David Axelrod
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This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.
David Axelrod
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Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.
David Axelrod
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Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.
David Axelrod
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We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy.
David Axelrod
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I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.
David Axelrod
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I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.
David Axelrod
