“Our democracy will not work without the sense that everyone has an economic opportunity.”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“Democracy does not require uniformity. Our founders argued, quarreled, eventually they compromised. And they expected us to do the same. But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity. The idea that for all our outward differences, we are all in this together. We all rise and…”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“By almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place than when we started.”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“That's what we mean when we say our nation has been exceptional. Not that we've been flawless from the start, but that we've been able to change.”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“Tonight it is my turn to say thanks. Whether we have seen eye-to-eye, or rarely agreed at all, the conversations I have had with you [...] have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept me going. And every day I have learned from you”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“You can tell that I'm a lame duck, because nobody is following instructions! Everyone have a seat.”— Barack Obama, youtube.com
“Sometimes you hear that really nice guys get hot girls. But I found that really nice guys get really nice girls. Being nice is not really buying you any currency in the attractiveness realm. If the guys are hot, too, then sure, they can get a hot girl.’”— Elizabeth McClintock, theatlantic.com
“In real-life dating studies, which get closer to genuine intentions, physical attractiveness and earning potential strongly predict romantic attraction.”— James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
“Reaching out to evangelicals doesn’t mean you have to become pro-life. It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are. The second thing is that there’s a religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party. It’s tied to the demographic…”— Michael Wear, theatlantic.com
“I spent 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I lived through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on twelve different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, it was my life that was on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job where I took…”— John Glenn, library.osu.edu
“There is plenty to do in this world, and plenty to be vigilant about. But let’s stop pretending that the ticker-tape of the news feed is anything other than what it is: addiction and manipulation masquerading as a social good. Then we wonder why we’re sapped of reason and willpower and perspective.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“I reject the idea that the pot is nearly at a boil and I must watch it closely until the exact moment that it happens.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“Twitter isn’t designed to help you get in and get out with the best information as quickly as possible—it’s supposed to suck you into either a contentious world of argument and debate or an echo-chamber that reassures you everyone thinks like you do.”— Ryan Holiday, observer.com
“But the more Vox persists, the less hope there is for American politics. The Vox model is premised on the idea that people shouldn’t think for themselves, that the important parts of political thought and decision-making should be outsourced to experts. Inevitably, these experts will produce solutio…”— Nathan J. Robinson, currentaffairs.org
“Half of America is thinking to themselves: 'I'm a decent, hardworking American, scared for the future because manufacturing jobs are going away, my community is disintegrating, and the people in power don't care about me. Why do these liberal crybabies think I'm some racist hick?' The other half is…”— Ben Tolkin, facebook.com
“I've seen the nations rise and fall, I've heard their stories, heard them all; but love's the only engine of survival.”— Leonard Cohen, open.spotify.com
“News is mainly entertainment. Its primary objective is to keep you watching so that it makes money. What better than negativity and apocalyptic scenarios to keep your attention?”— Michal Bohanes, medium.com