Like most parents, they wanted to be proud of me and wanted to feel confident they had launched me on the road to a better life.

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And with your proud service, I'm absolutely confident that the United States of America will meet the tests of our time.

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How much more confident and forward-thinking, more hopeful and proud might we be?

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"I'm proud of them, when I see these young women, very confident, competing and challenging with their boy classmates and schoolmates, " she says.

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I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city.

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And I think they would both be tremendously proud of their daughter -- a great lawyer, a great teacher, and a devoted public servant who I am confident will make an outstanding Supreme Court justice.

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