"Larry and Sergey and I have spent a lot of time talking about how to run everything, " Schmidt said on Thursday's earnings call.

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Between building my own organization and serving on multiple search committees, I have spent a lot of time thinking about hiring and developing talent.

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And over the last two years, Jill and I have spent a lot of time meeting with spouses who play the role of both parents for months on end.

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We've spent a lot of time together at the G20, and I have very much appreciated the engagement and the passion that President Kirchner has brought to the important global issues that we've been discussing.

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And I think -- and the President said this to the AMA -- that these are individuals that have spent a lot of time in school, racked up a lot of debt, because they want to practice medicine, not because they want to be administrators or bean counters or paper pushers -- they want to be healers.

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