Remember, when we -- I stood up here in January and got the very same question: How could we possibly get anything done in this election year when there is so much partisanship and gridlock?

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Some of you remember I stood right here with you two years ago when I was still a candidate for this office. (Applause.) And during that campaign, we talked about how, for years, the values of hard work and responsibility that had built this country had been given short shrift, and how it was slowly hollowing out our middle class.

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And I think you heard him reiterate his commitment again yesterday when he stood here with Vice President Biden.

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In a letter to the chain, he wrote: "When Massachusetts became the first state in the country to recognize equal marriage rights, I personally stood on City Hall Plaza to greet same-sex couples coming here to be married, " he added.

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And when I came here three years ago, I told the story of when Lyndon Johnson stood with Harry Truman and signed Medicare into law.

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