David Axelrod

We are a unified party.

— David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

— David Axelrod

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

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Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.

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“I said that certain West Coast jazz was like "wet dream music." That’s a great line, isn’t it? You knew something happened…

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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…

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Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on…

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I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are…

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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…

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We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

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People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for…

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I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it…

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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…

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If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a…

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I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to…

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This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and…

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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going…

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Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry…

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The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest,…

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We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that…

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“If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent,…

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The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the…

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Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to…

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We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

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I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of…

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The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be…

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But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform…

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We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the…

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But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go…

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We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of…

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I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January…

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But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going…

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I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you…

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I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes…

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No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived…

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