"Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner."

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Gail Collins

#Home Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.”
“We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.”
“When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.”
“I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.”
“To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."”

Source : Peter Turchi (2011). “Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer”, p.11, Trinity University Press
“It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.”
“Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.”
“In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time.”

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