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Trump on Inauguration Day 2017. Photo: Noam Galai / WireImage via Getty Images
President Trump said today that he wants to "bring our country back from a tremendous divisiveness" that began in the Clinton era. Here's what he said during a White House lunch with TV anchors before tonight's State of the Union address:
I would consider it a great achievement if we could make our country united, if I could unite the country. That's not an easy thing to do because the views are so divergent.
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- "I actually asked a longtime senator — happened to be a Democrat — 'Is this the worst [most divided] you've ever seen it?' He said, 'Absolutely not. During the impeachment of Bill Clinton was much worse than this.'"
- "[H]aving a business background and a successful business background is great, but oftentimes you do things that you would never do in business because you have to also govern with heart."
- "[I]mmigration is so easy to solve if it was purely a business matter, but it's not. And I think that's something that I've learned maybe more than anything else.