He insists that the damage was "absolutely enormous" and it was "an extraordinary achievement".

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To gracefully perform all these functions and produce a perpetually winning team is an extraordinary achievement.

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At the meetings tomorrow, I think it's an effort to mark an extraordinary achievement by the U.N.

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Actually, Europe's drifting off into its own self-contained world is an extraordinary achievement of the U.S.' post-World War II diplomacy.

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The restructuring of the electricity industry was an extraordinary achievement that became the template for restructuring utilities around the world.

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Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is an extraordinary achievement.

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An extraordinary achievement and a truly worthy winner.

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That was an extraordinary achievement.

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And we have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care. (Applause.) And it is an extraordinary achievement that has happened because of all of you and all the advocates all across the country.

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