And I said, Mike, no, you deserve this vacation, you need to be with your son, so I was the one who told him he should go out there.

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We need campaign finance reform, and I'll be the first one to sign up.

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"I thought I'd be the one saying (to the children), 'You need to go back with grandmother, ' " she said, "I'd be visiting once a week instead of dedicating myself to buying diapers, " she said, allowing a brief laugh.

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" Well, he came to the dais and said, "it may be true that I need no introduction, but no one enjoys one more than I do.

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So just to pick up on one point of perhaps disagreement, I would say that the thing that we need to be focused on, and I hope we will spend some serious time talking about it tonight is, what are the dynamics at work in this world?

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It is an amazing thing to me to see how the country, regardless of political polarization or red states, blue states, how the American people rally as a country, as a nation, as one people in coming to the aid of fellow citizens in need, and I find that to be extremely important, very healing and an integral part of this entire process.

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