I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. – Barack Obama
If the critics are right that Ive made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. – Barack Obama
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. – Barack Obama
We need earmark reform, and when Im President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. – Barack Obama
I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. Im always itching to get back in the car. Its going to get harder, so Ive got to make sure that Im doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season. – Dan Wheldon
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011