"My priority will be making sure my family is happy and settled."
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"We need to support Mary Burke for Governor!"
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"Every Thanksgiving, Barack sits down to call some of our troops and thank them for their service. When he tells me about these conversations, it always reminds me of how blessed we are to live in a country where men and women will stand up to protect our freedoms and preserve our way of life. And whenever I've had the chance to meet with these heroes and their families, I've always walked away inspired by their courage and in awe of their strength."
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"I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me."
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"Over the years I've become more confident in people's ability to recognize a good thing."
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"No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years ago. Now it's too late."
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"Discriminating against same-sex couples just isn't right."
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"When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences are being shaped by the marketing campaigns you all create. And that’s where the problem comes in.. ... And I’m here today with one simple request - and that is to do even more and move even faster to market responsibly to our kids."
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"And that's why the president has asked the entire government to step up, on his part. I mean, there's - there are things that the private sector needs to do; there are things that the government needs to do."
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"Kids, everybody can get behind. It's a bipartisan thing. We care about our kids' health. But the truth is, it's very important for us to talk to parents, in particular mothers, because it's really our self-esteem, it's our initiative."
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"I was an incredibly devoted student, and I would often wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to study. But even so, there were still people who thought that a girl like me with a background like mine wasn't really "college material.""
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"I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me."
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"As women, we cannot afford to neglect ourselves."
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"It's all about, you know, continuing to get to know ourselves in a very diverse and complicated country that is America. It is a wonderful place to live. But because it is so diverse, our challenges are complex."
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"Truly 1 percent of this country serves and protects the freedoms of the other 99 percent of us, so many of us don't have that connection. Fortunately, Jill Biden does. She's a blue-star mom. Their son was in the National Guard - or is in the - in - is a Reservist."
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"Not everybody is going to run a marathon or do a triathlon. It's not necessary to do that to be in good health."
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"It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position."
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"I'm trolling through the recesses of my mind for the things I did with my kids when they used to like to do things with me. They don't want to be around me now. I look back on these times - all those little funny pottery dishes that you'd pay for, and they'd paint, and they were ugly, and you glazed them, and you'd go back, pick them up, and it's like, "Oh, now I've got to put this on my desk." There's all that kind of stuff."
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"Start, as parents, with yourselves, number one."
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"We're our kids' first and best role models. So the first question is, what are you as a mom or a dad doing every day, or every week, to start getting into the good habits?"
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