And so when I hear people just saying, oh, we don't need to do anything, this is a spending bill, not a stimulus bill -- without acknowledging that by definition, part of any stimulus package would include spending -- that's the point -- then what I get a sense of is that there's some ideological blockage there that needs to be cleared up.

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When you're playing in slams, I just think each day you need to take as it comes.

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So, again, I just didn't think it was prudent to accept the money when we didn't need the money.

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You can't be thinking I need to give myself an extra 45 minutes just in case, like we do when we're normally driving around London.

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When I last discussed the need for better digital credentials in this blog, the President had just signed the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) to address two challenges that can affect economic growth online: (1) the insecurity and inconvenience of static passwords and (2) the cost of transactional risks that arise from the inability of individuals to prove their true identity online.

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