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"Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher... We've got it all."
"If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can."
"There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too."
"I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln."
"You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless."
"One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit."
"Even when you go up ramp, and you think about [Franklin D. Roosevelt] wheeling himself up, you know, got a little cigarette holder in his mouth, and it, that, that awe that you feel, that reverence that you feel for the place never entirely leaves."
"Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?""
"Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed."
"I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me."
"I hated the soup and felt little for the can."
"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit."
"I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy."
"Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around."
"For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder."
"The problem with our deficit is not because Americans are taxed too little. The problem with the deficit is because Washington spends too much money. We have got to stop spending money we don't have."
"When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories."
"Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one."
"I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things."
"No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all."
