Politician's speech lifts line from The American President

Online posts say a politician's recent speech lifted a near‑verbatim line from President Andrew Shepherd in the 1995 film The American President. The film's press conference text includes Shepherd saying being president is "entirely about character," and lines such as "America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad" and a defense of free speech that "the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest." Sample posts explicitly compare the politician's wording to Shepherd's defense of Sydney Ellen Wade in the movie's climactic speech. The movie speech text on AmericanRhetoric.com supplies the quoted passages online posts cite as the source of the resemblance.