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What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.
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The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
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Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
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Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
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As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
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It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
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But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.