“I am not an ideologue. I'm not.”

— Barack Obama

Speech to the House Republican Conference (29 January 2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBAXEus6jXY, quoted in Who's an "Ideologue"? by Mark W. Hendrickson at American Thinker (17 February 2010) http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/02/whos_an_ideologue.html; full transcript in "Obama At House Republican Retreat In Baltimore" (17 February 2010) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/transcript-of-president-o_n_442423.html
2010
Context: The notion that I would somehow resist doing something that cost half as much but would produce twice as many jobs — why would I resist that? I wouldn't. I mean, that's my point, is that — I am not an ideologue. I'm not. It doesn't make sense if somebody could tell me "You could do this cheaper and get increased results" that I wouldn't say, great — the problem is, I couldn't find credible economists who would back up the claims that you just made.

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