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Returning to fair Harvard in September can mean a lot of things: the chance to take new classes, see old friends, and enjoy Cambridge without a permanent layer of snow on the ground...
...mean back to school shopping for some...and back to school stealing for others—and there...
...Right. So how - talk about that a little bit - I mean, how you are both kind of cause and effect of this, and you're also in some ways the great champion of it, of these ideas and values that are changing the way civic society works. The President: Well, look, I think our campaign was an expression of people wanting to be engaged and involved in different ways. They didn't want to just be passive consumers of political television ads. They wanted to have their voices heard. They wanted to interact with their membership - or with their neighbor...
...President: Right, it's expensive. Mrs. Obama: I mean, would this administration love to see those numbers increase? I'd probably say yes. But there's costs. And that gets back to responsibility - how much are we willing to spend as a nation to ensure that every single young person has an opportunity to do service in exchange for government-supported education is a wonderful idea. But you'd probably get some pushback on how much should be spent on it and what are the priorities and do we do it at this time. There may be a time...
...public life," he said. "When I see polls saying that it's 50-50 and people are still worried about whether this is going to somehow increase their costs when every bill that's out there would lower them, or that this is going to mean that they lose their doctors, or their health care is rationed, or, you know, all the other things that they're worried about, it leads me to spend a lot of time thinking about how can I describe this in clearer terms so that we can get the health care that the American people...