But we have to recognize that some common-sense regulations often will make sense for your businesses, as well as your families, as well as your neighbors, as well as your coworkers.

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We have to return to some very common-sense principles that everyday Americans live by every time they go to the grocery store or want to go to the movies or cash their paycheck, and that is you can't spend more than you have.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

He is heartened, I should mention, by what we have all heard from some members of Congress who have been long-time opponents of gun control measures, common-sense gun control measures like the assault weapons ban and the like.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

You may call it instinct, or common sense and all living things seem to have some degree of it.

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As with many perpetual Beltway disputes, the contours of a common-sense compromise on immigration have been clear for some time.

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