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And I was very proud that Condoleezza Rice stood her ground and didn't let them put words into her mouth or cut her short.
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And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
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And, you know, I tell young people today that I've never vested in a single retirement plan any place I've ever worked.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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But along the way I fell in love with journalism and started my career as a reporter.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze - and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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I love to putter around my house and work in the yard - I have lots of flowers and spend some time almost every morning (not in the winter, but most of the rest of the year) watering and taking care of them.
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I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
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I think that I was much more conservative than most of my colleagues in the media.
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I want to learn more about you and your lives, what you believe, what you fear, what you dream, what you value most.
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I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.
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I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
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I'm asked all the time why it is that liberal Democrats so dislike the president, and the only thing I can think of is because he's effective.
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I've worked for the President for ten years now, and I've never been in a meeting where he didn't ask tough, probing questions.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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It's been a thrill and a privilege and, of course, the ultimate is to serve in the White House and to serve the president.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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People ask me all the time which candidate the President would prefer to run against, and I reply: the Democratic nominee.
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So your investment advisor would not recommend my career, but I wouldn't trade it.
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The facts are on our side.
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The president always says if you're a mom or a dad, your most important responsibility in life is to be a good mom or dad, and I believe that.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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The President is opposed to amnesty because he thinks it would encourage further illegal immigration and reward those who broke the law.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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This president has delivered on his promises, and is doing in office what he said he would do, and I think many liberals are just shocked by that.
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Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.
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We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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You know, I don't think we've ever had an election in my lifetime where the choice is clearer or the stakes are higher.
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