When I first met him, I loved that Barack was so committed to serving others.
But when I first met him, one of the things I loved about Barack was that he was always so committed to serving others -- so committed that he turned down high-paying jobs, and instead, started his career working in struggling neighborhoods to get folks back to work.
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Anyhow, Max's passing reminds me that I'm blessed not just to have met him, but for another reason, because my political, cultural and musical consciousness developed at a most wonderful time.
After what feels like decades of making ill-advised forays into Spartan Chinatown living rooms and pretending to enjoy wine, I have met someone I love and respect, and I want to make decisions that honor and consider him.
That's what I really felt when I met with him.
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And I love being out here, I love campaigning because it allows me to do one of my favorite things in the whole wide world, and that is to talk about the man that I have loved and admired since the day I met him 23 years ago.
Bishop ROY WINBUSH (Bethel Church of God in Christ): I genuinely feel as we met with him that he is committed to put all of the resources necessary from the government to rebuild New Orleans.
And I met him in September, and he told me that he had worked for the Americans as soon as they got there in 2003.
"You're doing something important for the family, " he told me one day when I asked him if he thought it was strange that I hadn't met Neva's teacher.
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The day I met with him, he spent nearly four hours making the case that he and fellow-conservatives are the outspent underdogs in North Carolina, and that his expenditures merely represent a step toward balancing the score.
Now, one of the many things that I love about campaigning is that I get to talk about the man I have loved and admired since the day I first met him 23 years ago -- yes, my husband -- (applause) -- your President, my President. (Applause.) Now, although my husband is handsome, charming and incredibly smart -- (applause) -- that is not why I married him. (Laughter.) No.
When I met him, Quijada was preparing to deliver a talk on the topic of phonoaesthetics, that hard-to-pin-down quality which gives a language its personality and makes even the most argumentative Italian sound operatic, the most romantic German sound angry, and Yankee English sound like a honking horn.
There was also the fact that when the RUF battlefield commander Sam Bokarie retired, he set up house in the Liberian capital Monrovia (I met him there).
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