While my life as an entrepreneur has been wildly fulfilling, I still had a desire to help people in crisis after I left the military, so I joined Team Rubicon.

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And so President Abbas and I had very extensive discussions about how we could help to promote a better approach to Gaza.

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So when I was told I had a stroke, I couldn't help wonder if I was going to have those kind of aftereffects.

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However, they often had little to no legal or business experience, so I began answering questions to help them make more money and build their businesses.

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So when I was asked by Forbes to help them "rank the 20 tools which have had the biggest impact on human civilization, " I was ready.

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At that particular time he was a young man I wanted to help because (his father) Billy couldn't and had so much wanted to.

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You know, many nights I go home at night and I am so wounded from the conversations that I've had on TV that my dog Chip(ph) has to help me lick them up.

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So we had to make a very difficult decision when I became President about whether to walk away from American automakers or help them get back on their feet.

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