Limits. I cannot play instruments, i cannot sing like james taylor, i cannot put on a fashion display like lady gaga, but i can set a goal and make it happen. Just like you did. So i am here to urge you to use the same skills and determination that got you to this day to help you get to a lot more days that are just as meaningful. I once had a day like this. Graduation. For me, it was a celebration of fighting for what i believed in. The president talked about this. I grew up in a family that had a lot of ups and downs, and college wasnt in the cards for me. Nobody in my family had made it through college, but i wanted to be a teacher and i believed that i would be a good teacher. And i thought that was a goal worth fighting for. The path was tough, i borrowed money, i married young, i dropped out of school, i went back and, finally, i got lucky. I got really lucky. We moved to a place that was about 30 miles away from a commuter college where the tuition was 50 a semester. I held on f
Limits. I cannot play instruments, i cannot sing like james taylor, i cannot put on a fashion display like lady gaga, but i can set a goal and make it happen. Just like you did. So i am here to urge you to use the same skills and determination that got you to this day to help you get to a lot more days that are just as meaningful. I once had a day like this. Graduation. For me, it was a celebration of fighting for what i believed in. The president talked about this. I grew up in a family that had a lot of ups and downs, and college wasnt in the cards for me. Nobody in my family had made it through college, but i wanted to be a teacher and i believed that i would be a good teacher. And i thought that was a goal worth fighting for. The path was tough, i borrowed money, i married young, i dropped out of school, i went back and, finally, i got lucky. I got really lucky. We moved to a place that was about 30 miles away from a commuter college where the tuition was 50 a semester. I held on f
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Unexpected contentment that is settled upon me like an ancient ceremonial robe, warm and splendid, mislead but valued all the more for its belated retrieval. Randall robinson, thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. On this weeks newsmakers, dana rohrabacher. Hes chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on europe, eurasia, and emerging threats. We discussed a variety of Foreign Policy topics, including israeli and Israeli Palestinian peace talks. These makers is sunday on cspan at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. We wrote this about a year and a half ago, its called 10 letters. Its letters that president obama reads and i went back and found 10 of them who had written to the president. It has been a pretty good read. When that is done, then we go on to act of congress and another guy at the Washington Post and back in the 1970s there was a big difference between then and now it is just that these guys have written. Collision 2012 is written and there was a similar wri
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