EMM News Explorer: David Plouffe

[ said]: paying more in taxes than people making $50m, $60m a year, we've got to change that,

independent 25-JAN-12

[ said]: We are going to outline that specifically tonight,

IHT 25-JAN-12

news 24-JAN-12

[-told]: One of the things the President is going to talk about in the State of the Union tonight is something Warren Buffett famously talked about is he should not pay less in taxes than his secretary does. The president, as you know, has talked about something called the Buffett Rule. We’re going to outline that specifically tonight, what that would mean,

ABCnews 24-JAN-12

[-said]: I think if you look at what happened in ’08. We almost went into a great depression. We had an incredibly steep recession that caused all the job loss that caused a lot of pain to people. And that wasn’t an accident, it just didn’t happen. There was a reason for it,

ABCnews 24-JAN-12

[ said]: Well, listen, we're happy to have this [be] a referendum on what we've done,

CBSnews 24-JAN-12

[-said]: We saw what happened when we had an economy that was built on bad debt and financial instruments. That didn't work. It caused a crash and we're still recovering from it. So we know what we need to do here,

CBSnews 24-JAN-12

[said:]: We need to change our tax code so that everybody is doing their fair share.

smh 24-JAN-12

[-said]: is paying more in taxes than people making $50 million, $60 million a year, we’ve got to change that,

bloomberg 24-JAN-12

[said:]: We need to change our tax system. We need to change our tax code so that everybody is doing their fair share.

AP 24-JAN-12

[-said]: We have had over three million jobs over the last 22 months,

channelnewsasia 24-JAN-12

[-said]: When the average middle-class worker is paying more in taxes than people who are making $50, $60 million a year, we've got to change that,

ibtimes 24-JAN-12

[-said]: putting some flesh on the bones there,

ABCnews 21-JAN-12

[-said]: Seriously, if you’ve got ideas, send them our way,

ABCnews 20-JAN-12

[-added]: He’s working on it as we speak,

ABCnews 20-JAN-12

[-wrote]: Here's part of the problem: A lot of people in Washington don't understand what these tax cuts mean. A typical family gets about $40 with each paycheck from this tax cut, and opponents look at that and argue it doesn't have an impact,

latimes 21-DEC-11

[-said]: He has no core,

cnn 31-OCT-11

[-said]: seems to have tapped into something,

AP 31-OCT-11

[-said]: You get the sense with Mitt Romney that if he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue, to win an election, he'd say it,

AP 31-OCT-11

[-added]: You get the sense with Mitt Romney that, you know, if he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he'd say it,

cnn 31-OCT-11

[-said]: We have to throw everything we can at the economy,

usaToday 30-OCT-11

[ said]: If the Republican Party will say, 'You know what, because the Democratic Party is willing to do a lot more spending cuts, we are willing to ask the wealthiest to do a little bit more, through tax reform, then we could go a long way to solving this problem,

upi 30-OCT-11

[-says]: seems to have tapped into something.

AP 30-OCT-11

[-said]: He had some conversations with us, and I think it informed some of our thinking,

usaToday 30-OCT-11

[-said]: You get the sense with Mitt Romney that if he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue, to win an election, he’d say it,

japantoday 30-OCT-11

[ said]: Thirty Tea Party House Republicans are being put before 300 million Americans,

IHT 05-OCT-11

[-said]: We don't sit around here saying, `We wish we had an opponent.' We know that's going to come,

news 05-OCT-11

[ said]: What the president is saying now compared to what he's going to be saying in May I think there's going to be a great symmetry between the two,

news 05-OCT-11

[-said]: We know that's going to come,

AP 05-OCT-11

[ said]: What the president is saying now compared to what he's going to be saying in May — I think there's going to be a great symmetry between the two,

AP 05-OCT-11

[ said]: What the president is saying now compared to what he's going to be saying in May - I think there's going to be a great symmetry between the two,

newschannel5 04-OCT-11

[-said]: I think it?s got a very good chance,

france24 27-SEP-11

[-said]: I think it's got a very good chance,

montrealgazette 27-SEP-11

[-said]: The Republican leadership is putting their demands ahead of the needs of 300 million Americans,

cnn 25-SEP-11

[-said]: The election is not for 14 months,

usaToday 25-SEP-11

[ said]: What the president wants to do is cut taxes for just about everybody in America,

usaToday 25-SEP-11

[-also told]: The American people are screaming out, saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that lobbyists have -- along with lawmakers -- have cooked into the books here.

usaToday 25-SEP-11

[-said]: That has to stop, because we're not going to make progress on the deficit, on things we can do right now for jobs, on tax cuts, unless those 30 or 40 Tea Party members of the Republican House stop being the focal point of our discussion,

usaToday 25-SEP-11

[-said]: We are not going to move forwards together as a country unless we do so in a bipartisan way,

usaToday 25-SEP-11

[-cited]: the needs of 300 million Americans.

usaToday 25-SEP-11

[-pointed out]: State of the Union.

upi 25-SEP-11

[-said]: The Republican leadership is putting (Tea Party) needs ahead of the needs of 300 million Americans. And that has to stop, because we're not going to make progress on the deficit, on things we can do right now for jobs, on tax cuts, unless those 30 or 40 Tea Party members of the Republican House stop being the focal point of our discussion. And I think the country is tired of it because we are not going to move forwards together as a country unless we do so in a bipartisan way,

upi 25-SEP-11

[ said]: basic function of Congress to keep the government running

dailymail 25-SEP-11

[-says]: The president's plan is based on the belief that we need to rebuild our economy the American way -- rewarding fairness, making sure that those who work hard and play by the rules are not left behind. ... That as everyone out in America are meeting their responsibilities, Congress is meeting theirs.

upi 08-SEP-11

[ said]: Right now, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and all of these Republicans are just a blank slate,

IHT 07-AUG-11

[-told]: Obviously each member is going to have to evaluate this. But we think, at the end of the day, this is an agreement that will pass the Senate and the House and the president will sign into law,

news_com_au 02-AUG-11

[-also says]: a result that produces good deficit reduction at the front end.

AP 01-AUG-11

[-said]: we have to get this solved.

xinhuanet_en 01-AUG-11

[-said]: entitlement reform and tax reform.

msnbc 01-AUG-11

[-said]: We think that at the end of the day, this is an agreement that will pass the Senate and the House and President Obama will sign it,

AP 01-AUG-11

[said:]: We have to get this solved. The hours are ticking. In the coming hours I think it is incumbent on congressional leaders to compromise that one little bit.

heraldscotland 01-AUG-11

[-said]: The only way to really reduce the deficits significantly in a smart way is to make sure there is smart entitlement reform and closing of loopholes and tax reform,

AP 01-AUG-11

[-concedes]: would be a bad idea.

AP 01-AUG-11

[-indicated that]: is not going to be charged with just doing spending cuts only. The committee is going to be charged looking at our entire deficit reduction problem and look at things like tax reform and revenue.

msnbc 01-AUG-11

[-said]: The second stage is going to be trickier: elements of entitlement reform and tax reform,

npr 01-AUG-11

[-said]: We don’t have a deal. The hours are ticking,

ekantipur 01-AUG-11

[-told]: It is clear that in the first stage we're going to get ... an extension of the debt ceiling, a first set of spending cuts over $1 trillion, and then you're going to get this committee that will be charged with reporting out hopefully a balanced deficit reduction,

economictimes 31-JUL-11

[ said]: I'm confident that any solution that this committee would produce, that ultimately will be voted on in Congress, is going to be balanced,

smh 31-JUL-11

[-said]: We don't have a deal,

smh 31-JUL-11

[-said]: The hours are ticking here,

usaToday 31-JUL-11

[-told]: I think that what's clear is that pretty much both parties agree that there's going to be a first stage of deficit reduction, over a trillion dollars,

smh 31-JUL-11

[ insisted]: You want something to compel this committee to act,

smh 31-JUL-11

[-indicated that]: you want something to compel this committee to act.

msnbc 31-JUL-11

[-said]: The second stage is trickier,

usaToday 31-JUL-11

[-said]: We don't have a deal. The hours are ticking,

channelnewsasia 31-JUL-11

[-told]: It is clear that in the first stage we're going to get... an extension of the debt ceiling, a first set of spending cuts over $1 trillion, and then you're going to get this committee that will be c harged with reporting out hopefully a balanced deficit reduction,

kuwaittimes 31-JUL-11

[ said]: In the coming hours I think it is incumbent on congressional leaders to compromise that one little bit,

channelnewsasia 31-JUL-11

[ said]: I'm confident that any solution that this committee would produce that ultimately will be voted on in Congress is going to be balanced,

channelnewsasia 31-JUL-11

[-told]: What you're going to have to do is reconcile what's in Reid and Boehner, which is a lot of the things the president has talked about in terms of spending cuts he'd be willing to accept,

JakartaPost 29-JUL-11

[-said]: What you're going to have to do is reconcile what's in Reid and Boehner, which is a lot of the things the president has talked about in terms of spending cuts he'd be willing to accept. And that's where the compromise is,

guardian 29-JUL-11

[ said]: Congress and Capitol Hill have been flooded, with emails and phones, switchboards are jammed, servers going down. So it's clear the American people are frustrated by the lack of compromise in Washington,

montrealgazette 27-JUL-11

[-writes]: The president is willing to make tough cuts with real impacts, not easy decisions,

usaToday 17-JUL-11

[-writes]: The President is willing to make tough cuts with real impacts, not easy decisions,

usaToday 16-JUL-11

[-said]: I will say it's been interesting just obviously the last few days Governor Romney has reminded us that he's a world class political contortionist,

usaToday 08-JUL-11

[-also said that]: They view the economy through their own personal prism.

usaToday 08-JUL-11

[-said]: The average American does not view the economy through the prism of GDP or unemployment rates or even monthly jobs numbers,

usaToday 08-JUL-11

[-said]: Our sense has been to make the numbers work, you're going to have to have a revenue-positive situation,

npr 07-JUL-11

[ said]: There are some theatrics that obviously occur externally,

latimes 07-JUL-11

[-said]: It was the hardest thing we did last time ... change the composition of the electorate,

usaToday 06-JUL-11

[-said]: It was not a string of bad luck,

usaToday 06-JUL-11

[-said]: Both parties are going to have to get out of their comfort zones,

usaToday 06-JUL-11

[-said]: There's been a lot of progress made, and there's more that needs to be made,

usaToday 06-JUL-11

[-said]: The clock's ticking here, obviously,

usaToday 06-JUL-11

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