Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.
I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.
Being an All-Star is everything.
As a kid, everyone dreams of being in an All-Star game.
Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen - Republican or Democrat, Socialist or libertarian - should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.
I think India should be our top ally in Asia Pacific. And the two countries have so much in common, including being the largest and most powerful democracies.
Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Honestly, it's alright that people are buying more guns. I just care that they are being safe individuals.
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
