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.

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If you are rooting for the GOP this Fall (my friend is certainly not), there are so many things wrong with this statement, and here are just three.

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Thank you to my friend Mike at indeed.com for giving me the inspiration for this post.

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And to my friend, Leon Panetta, thank you for your extraordinary service to our country over so many years in so many capacities.

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"You see what it does to you, " said my friend Cathy, who has struggled with weight and diets for decades.

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You know, every year for 24 years, starting the year this award was established, my friend, Senator Edward -- Ted -- Kennedy, spoke at this event.

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So for those who are interested in national security, and that represents everybody here in this room, and I thank all of you for your continued support for us in our endeavors, you need to appreciate and help others appreciate the role that my great friend and colleague, Fred Thompson, has played on national security issues in the United States Senate.

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Face it, my friend, it just isn't moving no matter how hard and for how long you rev the car.

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Although somehow I have managed to avoid Miami, Puerto Rico, and pretty much any place in the Caribbean for so many years, I immediately got it, from sense memory: you are back in the tropics, my friend.

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