In this, as in most things, the most effective approach seems to be the middle path.
But right in the middle, the path, the only place anything was growing is where the tires from the bulldozer didn't touch.
And with that bill -- and the Tuition Assistance program -- last year we supported more than 550, 000 veterans and 325, 000 servicemembers who are pursuing a higher education. (Applause.) Because a higher education is the clearest path to the middle class.
In the middle is one man who understands the path that must be taken to find common ground between the two extremes.
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Keeping interest rates on student loans low would allow more Americans to get: a fair shot at an affordable college education, the skills they need to find a good job, and a clear path to the middle class.
The Obama administration proposed a middle path, prohibiting patents on gene sequences that are identical to those found in the body.
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"Though the path of peace is steep and has become steeper these last few weeks, in the long run it is the only path that offers the peoples of the Middle East hope for a normal life as part of the modern world, " Clinton said on Tuesday evening.
As long as Washington refuses to compromise over those matters, Arbatov believes, the two sides may be on a path toward another war in the Middle East.
The best path is a middle road, helping children develop a positive but realistic view of themselves in relation to others.
So, if we know that a higher education is the clearest path to the middle class, why would we make it harder to achieve?
Bush added the two parties needed to get to work "on the Mitchell process" which he said provides a clear path to solving the crisis in the Middle East.
Although the parties seem to be in opposite corners on ways to reduce the deficit, there is a middle path.
As described below, the United States has pursued a middle path in which many students work, though not necessarily in jobs that will lead to permanent employment.
The push to put people in homes and save the casualties of housing downturns has caused a gradual long-term divergence between housing prices and incomes, paradoxically putting us on an inexorable path to redefine the middle class as property-less.
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We also know, though, that there is no surer path to success in the middle class than a good education.
The parameters of a deal are clear, and the President is willing to continue to work with Republicans to reach a bipartisan solution that averts the fiscal cliff, protects the middle class, helps the economy, and puts our nation on a fiscally sustainable path.
Since then, the Obama Justice Department has trod a careful middle path.
Higher education, whether it's a four-year college or two years at a community college, is the clearest path we've got to the middle class.
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We had seen jobs shipped overseas so that the traditional path for a lot of folks into the middle class through manufacturing jobs -- that was gone.
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Our budget meets that pledge and puts us on a path to pay for what we spend by the middle of the decade.
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That fiscal year 2011 budget focuses on three things: job creation, middle class security, and putting the nation back on a path to fiscal sustainability.
All Middle Eastern countries that travel this challenging path will have the support and the friendship of the United States.
Imagine, for a moment, an obscure scribbler today in a garret somewhere trying to outline an ideology of the future that could provide a realistic path toward a world with healthy middle-class societies and robust democracies.
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However rocky the road to Middle East peace, Germany and Israel are travelling on a smoother path.
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Now, this Thursday night, I will offer you what I believe is a better path forward -- a path that grows this economy, creates more good jobs, strengthens the middle class.
Germany and Canada kept to a less extreme interest rate path, and their industrial production had climbed back to prerecession levels by the middle of 2011.
It's the surest path to finding a good job, earning a good salary, making it into the middle class.
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This roundabout path no longer made as much sense as he watched the market meltdown while in the middle of graduate school.
So the President believes that the opportunity is there, the parameters of a deal are clear, the path to a compromise is clear, and he hopes that the Republicans will meet him on that path and do something that would be very good for the American people, for the middle class, and for our economy.
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