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American. i think we need each others help. i think we need government help and i think we need to sort of embrace that idea. we are all in this together. you are talking about technology a and globalization. we have to do it together and cant get in there and do it alone. >> i agree with that. >> she just said it nicer. >> i was trying to -- >> a better way of saying it. >> the point is marshall had it right. we need to pull yours up from our boot straps but sometimes we need help to do that. >...

At the house level, you will have a different america represented. there is no room for a meeting place there. >> its really a challenge because along with the demographic change and the rural splat, you find the difference in world view. on the one hand, the individualism which is at the core of the republican world view turned into a hostility to government in general which is very widespread in south and rural areas and places where you dont need that much government. if you live in a big or ...

Its where my family is from. ive seen the devastation multiple times. and these are people who dont ask for anything. they pull themselves up by their own boot straps and they get going again. but theyre suffering right now. and every day that we delay -- and look, i understand what mr. boehner was going through yesterday. he had a tough vote in his conference. that wasnt fun. neither is not having power in your house. >> i understand. may i ask you this. this is being attributed to a scheduling...

Racial inequality. >> i can help him out. mousey, where you at? yeah! i agree with you because not all republicans are racist. all republicans hate poor people. what i also cant say is their policies disenfranchises communities of color. even if its not racism, its disdain for people who werent born into that privilege or dont have that kind of privilege now. i think even the one who is have black friends, really, really zero animosity. because they dont know what its like to grow up in communit...

You or breaks you. i was the adult. and i had to pull myself up by the boot straps. >> we met through a friend that i was in the marine corps with. >> we started dating and then we got married, had a nice wedding. and then a couple of years later, we had johnny. life was good. but we were a normal little family. that was our house right there. >> west kedes moines was a very peaceful, safe place. low in crime and everything else. >> johnny and i were best friends. i just remember nothing but hap...

Booths less than an hour from right now. what does this election boil down to? weve been at it for so long. its good to take a step back. whats the fundamental choice? >> the difference between the two is their vision of how they see the country going forward. its going to be one that, you know, uses the entrepreneurial prices out there, the spirit of the american people to go out and pull themselves up by their boot straps or one where government plays a significant role in determining outcomes...

In this country. weve known that since the great depression. these guy also take it and shred it. >> professor dyson, sorry to waste your time, im going to play some more of paul ryan. here he is. >> i come from a town that has been hit as hard as any but what happened next is the same thing that happens in communities around the country every day, our town pulled together. our churches and charities and friends and neighbors were there for one another. in textbooks, they call this civil society...

Its interesting that headline from bill clinton, you know, this is a big decision about what kind of country do we want to live in. both sides have said the same exact question. >> there are two great strains in the american tradition. one is rugged individualism. personality responsibility, pulling yours up by your boot straps. in the other case, we are all in it together and if youre down on your luck you may need a helping hand. the party successful is those that can reconcile those two. that...

Lots of -- latinos are conservative. theyre not voting conservative but democrat z interesting is that governor martinez said, i think she used the word damn she went to a launch with democrats and talked issues and she goes damn im a republican or something like that. so those two things that there is a huge hispanic population that will vote republican. numbers dont show that so far. >> right and he talks about picking yourselves up by your boot straps which is something people come here plann...

Individual. texas may be the one place where people actually still have boot straps. and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. but we also recognize that there are some things we cant do alone. we have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. and it starts with education. [cheering] 20 years ago, joaquin and i left home for college and then for law school. and those classrooms, we met some of the brightest folks in the world. but at the end of our days t...