Help me take responsibility for my own life so that I can be free at last.

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The drive to experience and explore the world has been the most powerful force of my own life for as long as I can remember.

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In order to best represent my state of Vermont, my own conscience and principles I have stood for my whole life, I will leave the Republican Party and become an Independent.

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But when I think about my own educational career, and what a difference it made in my own life, I want that for every single student in this country.

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This was just the first of many occasions when her life story provided a context for my own career in the foothills of political journalism.

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Despite my fears, what I find during this post incarceration era is that I can be honest with my kids about my own failings and help them prepare for the curves life will surely throw them.

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And with regard to Miss Hayden, I can only say that after, for the first time in my life, seeing a sonogram of my own child, I will never think the same exactly again.

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Neither the environmentalist, nor the anti-nuke understands this and as far as I can tell, they are both bent on destroying my life in a misguided effort to save the planet for its own sake and to perhaps save me from myself.

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I'd always tell you where I stood. (Applause.) And, most of all, I would wake up every single day thinking about you, thinking about how to make your lives a little bit better. (Applause.) Because in you I see my own life, and everything that my parents and grandparents struggled for.

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