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...Obama: You always have to remind people, even throughout the campaign, that solutions and forward movement on any issue is a multi - requires a multi-pronged approach. You need government, you need individuals, you need strong communities. And sometimes you lose sight that all of those have to be working. You rely too heavily on government to the exclusion of individual responsibility and engagement; individualism takes over community. But they all have to be working in sync...
...these very small steps of planting a garden gets us into the broader discussion that government isn't always the answer. That's something that the President said throughout his campaign. But a garden is a part of it. And how we change the way kids think about food is a part of that. Making sure people know that exercise has to be part of their daily lives - that's a part of it. And that's not something government can mandate, but it's within the power of each and every individual. Service is a part of that bigger...
...could talk about this idea of is there kind of a new social contract that this group of Americans or Americans as a whole are embracing. The President: Well, I think this is a positive thing, and it speaks to something we've tried to express during the campaign - Washington hasn't quite caught up to it yet - and that is that a traditional argument was between those who thought government could do everything and those who thought government shouldn't do anything. And even the way you framed the description spoke a little to that old paradigm: liberal, moderate...
...pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
...that is lost in this newer generation that's - that gets more accustomed to doing things online - Facebooking, Twittering. You know, that's something that I think we have to be mindful of, because technology is pushing things in the other direction. But it gets back to just the campaign as a model of what that can tap into. That's what people felt. It wasn't just the candidate, the confetti. It was also the fact that people could be in a room working together on a common mission, you know, you go to a rally...