"Here are people who are supporting me virtually, who are right there with me, and can't walk with me, but I could feel their energy, and I could feel that this mattered to them, " he said.
The Conservative MP said he was not homophobic and had "people in my life who are important to me who are gay".
Now, I want to start by acknowledging some of the folks who are with me here today.
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I'm determined to redeem the trust of people like Buddy and Anne who are with me in 1991.
The executives who are with me here today, not just behind me but in the audience, agree with me.
I'm thankful for my children who are teaching me about unconditional love.
And I mean the responses I think run the gamut from people who would say just give us more troops and everything will be fine, and the other people who are telling me in Anbar province earlier this year that these people don't want us here and we can't find the enemy.
And people wonder why there are curmudgeons like me who are opposed to the whole project.
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The voters you need to worry about are independents like me, who are working three jobs to scratch out 35 grand a year.
And the small business people who are here with me today exemplify that same entrepreneurial spirit.
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And it will save the jobs of teachers like the ones who are standing with me today.
Again, I want to thank all who are standing beside me for their outstanding leadership and their outstanding work on this issue.
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And I like working with the teenage boys who are sent to me by their frustrated parents or the high school psychologist.
My readers who write me are anyone from a 13-year-old to an 80- or 90-year-old, so I have a very broad readership.
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I'm grateful to the outstanding work of the people who are standing behind me, as well as all the contractors and private businesses that are involved.
We need to look no further than the workers and apprentices who are standing behind me to see the future that's possible when it comes to clean energy.
Yes, I mean we haven't, I haven't got a PR firm, I've got some very good friends in Oxford, some good professors and some people I much admire who are working for me.
So on behalf of all the hardworking Americans who are standing behind me, I want to thank you for helping to tell your story, and tell the story of why this is so important.
"The people who impress me are those that have their information all together, " says Magdalen Mui , Director of Small Business Services at Wells Fargo (nyse: WFC - news - people ) in San Francisco.
But because of the efforts of the folks in this room -- particularly those family members who are standing behind me -- we can be proud that that bell rings even louder now and each day grows louder still.
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And finally, I want to recognize all of the extraordinary, amazing athletes who are on stage with me today -- men and women who have won dozens of medals and broken countless records, and they have made us all so proud.
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My bankers, the people who make loans to me, are guys who I have relationships with.
This year I want to focus my list of connections down to those that matter, the ones I can help and who can help me, people who are good at paying forward and who have some wisdom to impart.
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Note: These misconceptions are not limited to journalists, but to the public at large, and most of these questions are also often asked of me by citizens who are curious about the experience.
Those who know me well are very aware of my well-publicized care and love of animals.
They will find jobs in a country of business owners like me who are starved for smart, skilled people.
The Producers I look to in the 2nd category who have inspired me are Brian Grazer, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Scott Rudin.
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