“You may want to move onto another topic, but I, I would just say this to the American people. If you believe that we can cut taxes by $5 trillion and add $2 trillion in additional spending that the military is not asking for, $7 trillion, just to give you a sense, over 10 years, that's more than our entire defense budget and you think that by closing loopholes and deductions for the well-to-do, somehow you will not end up picking up the tab, then Governor Romney's plan may work for you.”
![“But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.” quote by Jessica Mathews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/acf/jessica-mathews-74575_budget-cuts_but-you-have-to-have-a-vision-of-what-ki_2686585.jpg)
![“That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00d/barack-obama-17_black_that-is-another-theme-in-the-book-dreams_10185.jpg)
