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This way.
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I'll be with you in a second.
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Sorry to keep you waiting.
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- Mr.President--
- Is it all right if I call you Sydney?
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Of course. Mr.President...
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Have you ever been in the Oval Office?
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I've just been on the regular tour.
It didn't include--
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I hear it's pretty good.
:18:38
Mr.President, what you saw in there
was vanity run amuck.
:18:41
I was showing off for a colleague
who doesn't think much of me.
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It would be a real injustice to hold the GDC
accountable for my behavior today.
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On top of which, I am monumentally sorry
for having insulted you like that.
:18:55
Are you under the impression
I'm mad at you?
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Well, I...
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Sydney, seldom does a day go by
when I'm not burned in effigy.
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Not by a professional political operative
standing 30 feet from the Oval Office.
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I'll grant you that.
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When the city planners sat down to design
Washington, D.C., their intention was...
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...to build a city that would intimidate
and humble foreign heads of state.
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It's true.
:19:18
I didn't know that.
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The White House is the single greatest
home court advantage in the world.
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I learned that one the hard way.
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This bill is important to me.
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Yes, sir.
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I'll convey your message.
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But you don't believe me.
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The GDC is asking for 20 percent, sir.
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It's not gonna pass at 20 percent.
It's a long shot at ten.
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How do you know that,
until you put the White House behind it?
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At 20 percent...
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...we're 34 votes shy in the House.
It can't be done.
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But I'll tell you what.
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I'll make you a deal.
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If you can get 24 votes,
I'll get you the last ten.
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Twenty-four votes?
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If you can swing 24 votes
by the State of the Union...