"For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best."

"Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?"

"How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?"

"Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a radiant truth that to lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one."