They are generally fine people who are carrying out the task we as a society have assigned to them as well as they know how.

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However, inside these numbers again we have a much higher value assigned to the time of those business people making the journey than we do to the tourists or day-trippers in the cheap seats.

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Everyone knows we have to do more, and a special joint committee of Congress is assigned to find more deficit reduction.

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We have 1, 000 members of the NYPD assigned to counter-terrorism duties, and they -- along with the entire NYPD and the investments we have made in counter-terrorism infrastructure -- are being fully mobilized to protect our city.

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Each of the Secretaries and heads of agencies have been assigned to look at what we can do administratively to accelerate job growth over the next several months.

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"The spikes we experience from time to time may be related to increased reporting after a particularly terrible attack, but whatever the reason, we have some of the best detectives in the world assigned to finding the assailants, " he said.

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More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011.

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