Politiquotes of the Week: April 20
Obama and Romney test-drive general election messages.
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Obama vs. Romney - President Obama and GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney are trying out messages on the campaign trail. Obama is arguing that the change voters sought in 2008 has just begun. Romney says the president is a "nice guy," but the country can't afford four more years with Obama. -Joyce Jones
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Barack Obama - "I actually had the chance to sit in Rosa Parks' bus," said President Obama after a visit to the Henry Ford Museum. "I just sat there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history, but is also a part of that long line of folks - sometimes nameless, oftentimes didn't make the history books - but who constantly insisted on their dignity, their stake in the American Dream."\r(Photo: Pete Souza/White House Photo via Getty Images)
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Barack Obama - "We knew the changes that we believed in wouldn't necessarily come quickly, but we understood that if we were determined that we could overcome any obstacle, that we could beat any challenge," said President Obama at a fundraiser in New York. "And in just three years, because of what you did in 2008, we've begun to see what change looks like. We've begun to see it."\r\r(Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
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Mitt Romney - "The president's a nice guy, but we just can't afford him for four more years. Our kids can't afford him," said GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney in a Fox News interview.\r(Photo: REUTERS/Tim Shaffer)
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Herman Cain - "To Newt Gingrich I would say, 'Speaker Gingrich, with all due respect, let's get on with this, OK?'" said former presidential candidate Herman Cain in a WMAL radio interview. "I even endorsed Newt Gingrich at one point because I thought he had a shot. Well, not now. He doesn't have a shot."\r(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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