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Daniel Pfeiffer

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : December 24, 1975

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

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From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.

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There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

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We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

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I was incredibly - I've never been more confident of anything in my life that Hillary Clinton was going to win and Donald Trump would lose by a very large margin.

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It wasn't until Trump won that I thought back to all the things that I dealt with in the White House and that President Obama dealt with - the political forces, the changes in media and technology, the radicalization of the Right.

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What drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.

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I've always believed that the fundamental, driving strategic ethos of the Republican House leadership has been, 'What do we do to get through the next caucus or conference without getting yelled at?' We should never assume they have a long game.

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There's never been a time when we've taken progressive action and regretted it.

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