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Of the many democrats there to pay tribute. >> it was never a man or woman, at least when i was with him, that he ever looked at and spoke with who he didn't treat with dignity. so many people in powerful positions begin to think that they -- they know so much better than ordinary people. it was never about pedigree. it was never about degree. he didn't look at people and yield to pedigree. he didn't yield to that person in the room who had the most advanced degree. he was as bright as anyone in the room. but the thing i admired most about him was i believed that he believed, given a half a ch...

Circumstances enable him to move even more quickly. this is a very different message than the house is sending. >> and within the 2014 framework that the president has laid out, he has described the pace at which he wants to bring americans home from afghanistan as a steady pace. he hasn't said anything about how many troops he wants there over that time period. it seems like the president would not have to change any statements that he's previously made about the war in order to go along with your language. is that your sense? >> no, not at all. we're really reinforcing the vision the preside...

States the way we cared about the banks, we would give the states the same deal we gave the banks. lend to them at zero percent. >> some will reject it -- >> right, right. politics at state level. >> we're not going to take federal money. >> both parties are participating in an unsustainable economy. we cannot borrow -- >> that's not true, buddy. it's sustaining the big banks. it's the 99% not being sustained. >> where i come from, sustained to me are families. individuals. plain americans. >> i agree with you. >> this is unsustainable. >> what i'm saying is we have two issues. you talked abou...

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He laid out just how stark the country's income inequality is. >> look at the statistics. in the last few decades the average income of the top 1% has gone up by more than 250%. to $1.2 million per year for the top 0.01 of 1%, the average is now $27 million per year. the typical ceo who used to earn about 30 times more than his or her worker, now earns 110 times more. and yet over the last decade the incomes of most americans have actually fallen by about 6%. now, this kind of inequality, a level we haven't seen since the great depression, hurts us all.