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I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement. ↗

— David Axelrod

#barack #barack obama #communications #country #disseminate

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration. ↗

— David Axelrod

#affection #assignments #been #great #i

Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this. ↗

— David Axelrod

#anyway #because #challenge #china #clean

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#blessings #gratitude #spiritual-growth #victim-mentality #experience

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#break up #bring #cars #home #kill

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#beginning #every #happens #impossible #inevitable

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#close #encounters #exciting #i #just

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#go #i #i am #i think #mean

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#effective #had #i #i wish #more