As well as discussing his role in Afghanistan, he talked about various other issues, including that he had "let my family down" when he was pictured naked in a Las Vegas hotel room last year.
He said he could not go out to work because my family back in India would think he could not support me.
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He knew my name, the names of people in my family, and would always ask about them when he saw me.
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In lieu of money would he accept some beef for his family from one of my steers nestling in the freezer fresh from the butcher?
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When my brother Dan was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2001 and was told he likely had less than a year to live, my family was in complete shock.
Since acknowledging in a brief statement on Monday that he had acted "in a way that violates my obligations to my family, " the first-term Democrat and his family had remained secluded in their apartment on Manhattan's 5th Avenue.
"Above all my family, " he said in the interview conducted via attorney Luca Maori.
"I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family, " he said in a companywide memo.
"A car is different because I put my family in that, " he said.
"During my 35 years in the working world, I had never been accused of so much as jaywalking, so it was painful for me and my family to have my honesty and integrity impugned, often by innuendo, " he wrote in his book about the probe.
"There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family, " he was quoted as saying in the interview, published Monday.
He asked me about my life in Toronto, my university courses, my family.
He can't evacuate himself and pretty much all my family lives there in Houston.
The title of this CD is called "The Pecan Tree" because the pecan tree, which in his case, he was from East Texas, which is also where my family is from.
"I chose to read geology at Manchester University and make my career in Antarctica, rather than go into the family business, " he said.
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It is John's first Christmas with my family and, despite two years of living in this culinary capital, he's not used to our gustatory ways.
And he went back to China, had a family, and so my father was also born in China, and came over as a teenager a few years later.
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He writes in his book "Dreams of My Father" about piecing together newspaper clippings, photographs and his family's stories in building a portrait of his father.
"I took a decision a long time ago that when I became involved in politics I would try shield my family from the glare of public life, " he said.
If you ask a farmer in America he or she will say this land is mine, it will allways be the land of my family.
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"I take full responsibility for my poor choices and will do all that is asked of me to regain the trust of my family, friends, teammates, coaches and the entire Notre Dame community, " he wrote in a letter released Sunday by the university.
My son-in-law needs to know that everything is fine, because he's got the whole family concerns.
My Dad never became very prosperous himself, but he was the one who broke the cycle of poverty in our family.
"We allow private actors--your company, me, my family--to put pollution into the atmosphere in unlimited amounts at zero cost, " he said.
"Certain behaviors cause a great deal of pain in myself and those who are victimized by those behaviors, especially our family and my wife, " he wrote.
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And I saw how my father carried himself with that same dignity, that same pride he had in being able to provide for his family, that same hope that his kids would one day have opportunities he never dreamed of.
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