Looking back, in terms of successfully completing an agenda, what grade would you give the Democrats this year?

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What grade are you guys in?

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So what grade are you in?

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Kindergarten, elementary school -- I don't know what you guys call it -- before eighth grade.

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Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .

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"Just seeing so many from grade school going through big life changes and it makes you question what you're doing, " she said.

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You cannot do anything that is of a lower grade and a lower quality than what has just been done on Clash of the Titans.

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Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM (Republican, South Carolina): It's what I was told in the ninth grade Congress would be like, where you had members of the Senate with the members of the executive branch, cabinet secretaries, literally writing a bill line by line.

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What should matter is not so much your degree or grade point average but how well equipped you are for the next stage in life.

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