To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, Huh. It works. It makes sense. – Barack Obama
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things – such as traditional marriage – that, I think, express a communitys concern and regard for a particular institution. – Barack Obama
What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps Im not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time. – Barack Obama
Ive got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isnt going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you. – Courteney Cox