"The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?"

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Source : "White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

David Plouffe

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“I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.”
“Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.”

Source : Jean Aitchison (1997). “The Language Web: The Power and Problem of Words - The 1996 BBC Reith Lectures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press
“Vices are not crimes.”
“Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.12
“You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.”
“How fitting [it would be if Roger Federer played the first match under the roof] ... he has become known in recent years as the King of Wimbledon ... and this is the day after of the death of the King of Pop.”
“It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.”
“I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.”

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