You say that, if you're unemployed, you have nothing to lose, that you need to take what you love to do and try to figure out how to make money doing just that.

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It means doing what we try to do in our own lives -- by taking responsibility for our deficits, by cutting wasteful, excessive spending wherever we find it.

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He's going to try to do all the grassroots stuff that everybody else is doing.

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That's, I think, an important lesson for all of us on this day -- are the things that we can try to do that might have seemed impossible but we know are worth doing, and can we apply those principles that we know to be true in our own lives and our society.

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"Sometimes this type of publicity will make officers reluctant to do their job, and then we all suffer, or get them overcautious in doing their job, and they do meet a bad guy breaking into a house and try to be too nice and wind up getting killed, " Thomas says.

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