“Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I thin…”— Barack Obama, amazon.comTagged: Barack Obama, Women, Strong Women
“But our democracy might work a bit better if we recognized that all of us possess values that are worthy of respect: if liberals at least acknowledged that the recreational hunter feels the same way about his gun as they feel about their library books, and if conservatives recognized that most women…”— Barack Obama, amazon.comTagged: Deep Thoughts, Guns, Belief, Understanding Pain, Democracy
“I am obligated to try to see the world through George Bush’s eyes, no matter how much I may disagree with him. That’s what empathy does— it calls us all to task, the conservative and the liberal, the powerful and the powerless, the oppressed and the oppressor. We are all shaken out of our complacenc…”— Barack Obama, amazon.comTagged: Empathy, Polytheism, Openness, Seeing Through The Eyes Of Other People, My Philosophy
“Today’s politician understands this. He may not lie, but he understands that there is no great reward in store for those who speak the truth, particularly when the truth may be complicated. The truth may cause consternation; the truth will be attacked; the media won’t have the patience to sort out a…”— Barack Obama, amazon.comTagged: The Media, How Politicians Think, Mazes of Individual References Points, Contextualism, Rhetoric In Politics