"Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go."

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Source : "Election 2014: Obama’s Failure to Communicate" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. November 5, 2014.

David Corn

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“Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.”
“He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.”
“If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.”
“The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.”
“The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.”
“I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.”

Source : Kevin Benderman (2007). “Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of Conscience”
“My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.”
“Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large”, p.349, Del Rey

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