But I cannot have -- I do not have the right to ask a president to abdicate.

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We're going to ask everybody to participate, but I am not going to ask the middle class to do more than it has already done.

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"I want to ask not what the BBC can do for us, but what we can do for it", said Christina Rees, a lay member of synod.

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Do not be fooled for I ask you not to pretend that the provision loans to UK business will be transformed.

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But I ask the marchers to understand this: I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour.

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So what I want to ask you is do you think it's not true that the values are different, or do you resent the fact that people think that it is or talk to me a little bit, if you will?

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But, as an outsider to the European political scene, I do want to try and get under their skin and ask the questions they would not normally get asked.

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The one question everyone must ask is: what do I do with my money if the world is not ending?

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And I always get off the phone with America's Mayor, David Agnew, who is the guy that follows up on everything that I ask him to do in those phone calls -- I'm not sure how well David likes the phone calls.

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Usually price had little or nothing to do with the fact that I was not ready to make a decision, but since these reps never bothered to ask, I felt no obligation to tell them.

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