My male high school journalism teacher taught me to write and most of my female English teachers gave me a love of literature that is one of the mainstays of my spiritual life to this day.

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They kept fighting for America -- Like Danny Inouye, who's here. (Applause.) Danny, who was my senator most of my life. (Laughter.) Love that man.

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