“People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you’ve got to meet real socialists. You’ll have a sense of what a socialist is,” Mr. Obama said at Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council meeting in Washington.
“We know what the challenges are, we know what the solutions are,” Obama said. “Some of them are tough, but what’s holding us back is not a lack of good policy ideas or even what used to be considered good bipartisan policy ideas. We just have to break through the stubborn cycle of crisis politics and start working together.”
Obama said Republicans and Democrats are actually “fighting inside the 40-yard lines” when it comes to policy differences on issues like infrastructure, entitlement reform and tax reform.
