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In a 2003 poll, most Indonesians had a higher opinion of Osama bin Laden than they did of George W. Bush.

he insisted that I move toward the center of people's lives

The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln.

When I meet with world leaders, what's striking — whether it's in Europe or here in Asia…" — Barack Obama, mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011

carrying all the same baggage. All the same anger, all the same pent-up frustrations, all the same messages.

You have my authorization." And with those four words, spoken into a device that had probably also been used to order pizza, I initiated the first new military intervention of my presidency.

the will to conquer other people's minds or territories or aspirations…is meaningless.

Why can't I just eat my waffle? - Barack Obama

Once, while our motorcade was barreling down the highway in a driving Iowa rainstorm, he leaned forward and yelled at the agent behind the wheel, "Son, I'm half blind but even I can see you're too damn close to that car!")

Her eyes were open and glazed, a piercing shade of violet with fixed, bottomless pupils.

Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

was the most powerful ruler in the western

Yeah, Erik. You're about as sensitive as a toilet seat, Horatio said. Angie giggled. That's not original. I got it from Holden Caulfield. Who's he? Angie asked. A character in a book. [i]The Catcher In The Rye[/i]. (pg. 69)

If any town in Europe would have vampires, he knew it would be Prague.

It is a terrible mistake to put the rifles of tomorrow into the hands of the ignorance of yesterday.

Women so frequently turn out like their mothers I don't know why I was even surprised.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

He's legitimizing personal greed as the principal religion of our country.

A life was a life. She'd been orphaned at an age to internalize death as poor material for a joke. And likewise, salvation.

But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?" "It was a president, señora." "Of what? Some place where they don't have any oxygen?" "Of the United States." "As I said.

She said don't ever be pregnant during the lead-up to Halloween because it will put you off candy corn for life. I told her thanks for the advice.

She sounded like a man, with that deep voice smokers get as their prize for their hundred millionth pack.

will put you off candy corn for life.