And I am especially proud and touched to be able to stand here today with my close friend and colleague, Michael Morell, who epitomizes what it means to be an intelligence professional.
First I want to say I'm very glad and thankful that you are our President. (Applause.) And five years ago I told my friend Ken that Barack Obama will be President, and he said, no, not in my lifetime there won't be a black President.
I've done my best to be your friend, but I also let you down and I let my family down and I let this country down.
It is an honor to call him my friend, and let me be very clear, I know that Sen.
But if anyone has been confused by these e-mails, I want you to know that today I'll be speaking from my heart, and as a true friend of Israel.
And basically, that's when I started feeling like, you know, video is not going to be my friend if I can't do what I want to do with it and I can't explore it in my own way.
My friend and our editorial director Josh Fruhlinger will be taking on a bigger role in our day-to-day during the transition, and I won't be completely disappearing from the site -- I'll stay on as editor-at-large, to advise and direct when necessary.
It is always a pleasure to be here, and to have the opportunity to exchange views with my friend, President Yudhoyono.
And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady Michelle Obama.
My friend has everything charted properly and for all intents it should be case closed.
Ms. CUTTER: So, it's great to be down here - to be with him, and to have worked with him and to call him my friend.
And, as my friend Reihan Salam notes, it sounds like it would be an excellent reform for non-profit schools too.
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It will be difficult to replace the legendary batsman, for whom, in the words of my friend and cricket writer, Rohit Brijnath, "decency and determination were not conflicting virtues".
Thank you to Professor Avi Bell from Bar Ilan University Law School, my friend and intellectual sounding board for delaying your flight to New York where you'll be presenting a paper at a law conference tomorrow, to be here with me tonight.
Though the current unemployment rate as of November 2011 for age 55 and over is 6.4% and for men a bit higher at 6.8%, this may be artificially low since many pre-retirees may have simply given up and stopped looking for jobs like my friend Harry.
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