"The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank."

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Source : "'The New York Times' Looks Ahead At Michelle Obama's Future". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, wssbradio.org. January 6, 2017.

Jodi Kantor

#Home Quotes #People Quotes #Old Friends Quotes

“He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me.”
“From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.”
“The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?”

Source : George Stephanopoulos (1999). “All Too Human: A Political Education”
“The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.”
“Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.”
“What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.”
“My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.”
“For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.”

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