"I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for."

-- Robert Caro

#Thinking Quotes #President Quotes #Done Quotes

“Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.”
“I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.”
“Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.”
“I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.”
“While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.”
“The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.”
“I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.”
“Sometimes people forget their own greatness.”

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