Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.Ernest Hemingway
But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.Jeff Bezos
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.Martin Luther King Jr.
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.Isaac Newton
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.Barack Obama
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.Barack Obama
Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.Barack Obama
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.Franklin D. Roosevelt
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.Barack Obama
If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.Barack Obama