I dont care whether youre driving a hybrid or an SUV. If youre headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. Thats what the American people called for in November, and thats what we intend to deliver. – Barack Obama
I dont oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. – Barack Obama
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. – Barack Obama
The Internet didnt get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. – Barack Obama
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. – William Least Heat-Moon