“This election, this presidential election, I think has underscored underneath it several times. We want change. And it's not change in the White House so much, as change in Washington.”

—  Mitt Romney

2008-01-04
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
MSNBC
Television
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22540882/
2008

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