But I want to remind everybody here, you did not elect me to do what was popular.

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How did you know what to say to me?

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What decisions did you want us to make together versus having me inform you about?

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Finally you assign a referee to report on whether you did what you said. (You can be your own referee, but this seems a bit perilous to me.) If not, your credit card gets automatically charged.

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My room still looks the same -- same sheets, same pictures. (Laughter.) Neither of my parents got the chance to attend college, but let me tell you what they did do, because you all know this story -- they saved for us, they sacrificed everything for us, why?

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Do you know what would happen to me this afternoon if I started having the symptoms Joan did?

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But what did surprise me was the number of industries making the list that you might not expect to see, such as higher education, healthcare, and fast food chains.

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She held me by the hand and said, 'I've come to see what you did with my grandfather's book.

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It adds to the guilt if you think, I'm not doing for my children what my mother did for me.

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And let me leave that until we have a chance to discuss with you guys tomorrow what it is they did talk about.

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