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June 25, 2014
Clock for 25 years to get lots of money. you know what? i am blessed. i am blessed to be an american. i am blessed that hard work pays off. im blessed to be the luckiest guy on the face of the earth. but yes, im rich. but thats not the issue because fdr was rich, reagan was rich by the time he was president. a lot of great presidents were rich. the question is can you still relate to people. it has nothing to do with going to the grocery store. just say it, theyre rich and get over it. we dont c...
June 25, 2014
>> a draft of the lyrics to bob dylans "like a rolling stone" sold for $2 million. >> two million. >> yesterday at an auction in new york. its believed to be the highest price ever paid for a popular music manuscript. the draft is written on pencil on four sheets of stationery from a hotel in washington, d.c. its the only known written draft of the song. dylan was just 24 when he recorded it in 1965. >> joe doesnt want to admit it, but he bought that. >> "the boston globe" says researchers have ...
June 25, 2014
To talk about their heroism. >> if you ask a medal of honor recipient talk about something, hell never do it, but hell say, let me tell you about kyle carpenter. everybody does it. all combat soldiers, marines, airmen, coast guardsmen, sailors all say the same thing. they want to talk about somebody else. theres a squad of you detached from a platoon. it went from a very small outpost to an even smaller outpost where these guys were holding the ford. a very small number of people against a fairl...
June 25, 2014
Unlike other people who are really well off maybe just on capital gains, can you understand as a political matter that that can strike people as being out of touch. >> yu, but shes not out of touch. she advocated and worked as a senator for things that were good for ordinary people. and before that, all her life -- the people asking her questions should put this into some sort of context. i think i had the lowest net worth of any president in the 20th century when i took office, but i still coul...
June 25, 2014
Republicans and democrats. were proud when we work hard and make lots of money. i think some democrats are just guilty. maybe they feel guilty about being rich. >> do you really think -- >> ari is here, very proud to be rich. >> he just took a bath in money. >> why cant we just say im rich and proud of it. >> are you suggesting bill clinton is guilt ridden when he goes to bed every night? im not picturing that. >> why cant they just say were wealthy and were proud of it? >> i think she skrould m...
June 25, 2014
But that the interviewer should contextize this for people and say you have a lot of money but youve always been committed to working families. that seemed a little off to me. but i do think what he was saying was actually what people or critics would have expected to hear him say from the get-go which s look, im really blessed, but the question is can i deliver for working people, and the answer is yes. i think there could have been more of a sense of, sometimes we get caught up in the sense of...