“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.”

—  Barack Obama

To Eric Cantor
2009
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/opinion/sunday/eric-cantor-what-the-obama-presidency-looked-like-to-the-opposition.html

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