My lords, ladies and gentlemen - that is how the British prime minister described the European Union at the Lord Mayor's Banquet tonight.

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There you have two very special mo ments for the two special ladies in my life.

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And I think young people dress kind of like the ladies on my blog.

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One of the ladies in my triathlon training group is pretty large and would probably be classified as obese.

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But then, people like you, all of you here, started speaking out, including two of my predecessors, First Ladies Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan.

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And I've known a lot of these ladies most of my life living here too, and I can't imagine them pocketing it or not splitting it.

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"I used to get a lot of mail from ladies wanting to know if I ever sold any of my clothes and where did I get them, " she says.

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The ladies at the Goodwill were shocked when I walked in, but my courteous demeanor and the clear effort I was making to better myself left them smiling approvingly as I left.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I consider both Vice President Biden and Secretary Clinton as my very, very close friends.

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