After the former girlfriend ended the relationship, she told several friends about the abuse. A number of them advised her to keep the story to herself, arguing thatSchneidermanwas too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose. She described this response as heartbreaking.

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Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

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I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

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It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

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For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

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Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

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I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

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Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

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You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

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Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

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I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

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A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

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They had a euphemism at this company called enhanced severance.

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I'm still talking to a large number of these women, they continue to be committed to exposing a culture of silence around this.

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According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, NBC News General Counsel Susan Weiner made a series of phone calls to Farrow, threatening to smear him if he continued to report on Weinstein.

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The Tracy Ullman Show, he said, ‘That was a great meeting, now we have to go out to dinner,’.

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This was activity that happened, in many cases, fully clothed, outside of a sexual context, during arguments, in one case, a woman wasn't even in a relationship at all with New York AG Eric Schneiderman, Alisyn.

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This is an individual who was a very public champion of women's rights, who in fact introduced anti-choking legislation, and he was, according to multiple women in this story, choking them, among other things.

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I just want to relate the message of one of these women -- and it was a shared sentiment among this group -- that this was not role-playing, that this was not' Fifty Shades of Grey.' It wasn't in a gray area at all.

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It was upsetting to see, so the allegation that this was role-playing, you know, is not consistent with what these women said.

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This establishes a pattern now.

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