"There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right."

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This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't.

— Barack Obama