For me and my husband, it is important that in our choices we are setting examples for our kids that it is natural for girls to be strong leaders and for mothers and women to work in demanding careers, and for boys to be nurturers and for dads and men to be the primary care-givers, and vice versa.

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It was a hard choice, but it is our job to make those choices.

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It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences oftheir political choices.

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It is the tough choices that call for personal sacrifice that reveal whether our cherished ideals are real or mere window dressing.

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And because we made those hard choices, our economy is in a different place today than it was just a year ago.

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If you think about it, this is another way of saying that for ourselves we should give thought to our choices by putting first things first, and not letting second things become first things.

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This means that it is in fact not the desire to save money that makes us eat badly, but our own poor choices.

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