"Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that."

-- Barack Obama

#Taken Quotes #Leader Quotes #Political Quotes

“...there's no rule book or game plan when it comes to the grim realities of our lives.”
“Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.”
“If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.”
“Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.”
“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”
“The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.”

Source : "Now, about that passport..." by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2002.
“I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.”
“A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.”

Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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