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Barack Obama - “Don’t stop here. Keep going,” said President Obama at a White House event celebrating the passage of the tax cuts. “This may be an election year, but the American people have no patience for gridlock."(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Sheldon Adelson - “I’m against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections. But as long as it’s doable, I’m going to do it,” said Sheldon Adelson, the casino billionaire backing Newt Gingrich’s struggling campaign.(Photo: EPA/YM YIK/Landov)

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Mitt Romney - "First of all, let's not forget that four years ago, well after Romneycare was put into place, four years ago you not only endorsed me, you went on Laura Ingraham and said, 'This is the guy who is really conservative and we can trust him.' Let's not forget that you said that," Mitt Romney said to Rick Santorum at Wednesday’s GOP debate.(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Rick Santorum - “I have to admit, I voted for [No Child Left Behind]. It was against the principles I believed in, but, you know, when you’re part of the team, sometimes you take one for the team, for the leader, and I made a mistake,” said Rick Santorum about the much-maligned bill at this week’s GOP debate.(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Ron Paul - "He is fake,” said Texas Rep. Ron Paul of rival Rick Santorum at this week’s GOP debate.(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Robert Gibbs - "I think if you are an independent or an undecided voter, and you tuned in — tuned in to last night’s debate — I don’t doubt at all that you’ve been turned off by the type of nasty, negative, carpet-bombing distortions on each other and on the president's record," said former White House spokesman Robert Gibbs in an interview on CBS.(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Rick Perry - “Newt’s the real deal,” said former GOP White House contender Texas Gov. Rick Perry on CNN’s John King, USA. “He’s the real fiscal conservative, he’s the real social conservative, he’s the real 10th-amendment believing and breathing individual on the stage.”(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Chris Christie - "[Warren Buffett] should just write a check and shut up. Really. And just contribute. I'm tired of hearing about it," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said to CNN's Piers Morgan of Buffett’s call for wealthy Americans to pay higher taxes.(Photo: Michael N. Todaro/Getty Images)

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Barack Obama - “It was here that the pillars of our democracy were built often by Black hands, and it is on this spot, alongside the monuments to those who gave birth to this nation and those who worked so hard to perfect it, that generations will remember the sometimes difficult, often inspirational, but always central role that African-Americans have played in the life of our country,” said President Obama at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture’s groundbreaking ceremony.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Jeb Bush - “I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates and I’m wondering, I don’t think I’ve changed, but it’s a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people’s fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective, and that’s kind of where we are,” said former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in a Fox News interview. (Photo: REUTERS/Fred Prouser)

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Barack Obama - "Come on, baby don't you want to go," sang President Obama, crooning a line from “Sweet Home Chicago” in a duet of sorts with Blues legend B.B. King.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Stephen Colbert - “Satan loves big government. I mean what was the apple but the original food stamp?” said comedian Stephen Colbert.(Photo: Landov)

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