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Obama's speaking style with its preacherly repetitions and rhythms is nothing new. But the content of his speech - if you stop and actually listen to it - is aggressively vapid.
 - Christopher Beam

Millions of Americans are just a pink slip away from losing their health insurance and one serious illness away from losing all their savings. Millions more are locked into the jobs they have now just because they or someone in their family has once been sick and they have what is called the preexisting condition. And on any given day over 37 million Americans - most of them working people and their little children - have no health insurance at all. And in spite of all this our medical bills are growing at over twice the rate of inflation and the United States spends over a third more of its income on health care than any other nation on Earth.
 - Bill Clinton before congressional joint session 22 September 1993

Her candidacy is extraordinarily important. If ever a qualified woman could hold the presidency of the United States, this is the qualified woman. And for those of us that are part of 'a woman need not apply' generation that goes back to the time I went out to get my first job following college and a year of graduate work, this is an extraordinarily critical race. And I hope she stays the course and stays in it. And then we count up the delegate votes and we make a decision.
 - Diane Feinstein

I read the newspapers. I read a lot of newspapers. I read a lot of columns. I'm amazed at the number that are spent on really picayune things about Senator Clinton - her hair, her suits. And I think some of this just drives toward the insecurity of having a woman running for this office. If anyone is qualified to run for this office Senator Clinton is - eight years in the White House. Sure it's first lady. I know that. You know Hillary. You know her interest in policy. You know her care and concern about people. And most important right now I think it's the economy and her knowledge of what's happened to the middle class in the last eight years and how you mend that and bring people up into becoming economically upwardly mobile. That's what we should be talking about instead of - I read a lot of stuff which is really irrelevant to the kind of president she'll be and I think some of it is driven by the fact that it's easy to hit at a woman.
 - Diane Feinstein

At some point he took off his arms and grew wings.
 - Jesse Jackson

Obama's gyrations on Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran are not the actions of one imbued with superior intuitive judgment, but rather the machinations of a political opportunist looking to avoid having his fingerprints on any issue that might be controversial, and require real judgment, while preserving his freedom to bludgeon his adversary for actually taking positions as elected office demands. It is hard to discern whether Senator Obama is a man of principle, but it is clear that he is not a man of substance. And that judgment, based on his hollow record, is inescapable.
 - Joseph C Wilson

Politics as usual, baby. Hope just left the building. It's been replaced by bait and switch.
 - Taylor Marsh

Avie! Come home! All is forgiven!
 - Steve

You Americans are really deserving it if you let another Mr Nice Guy in the White House instead of someone who actually understands what's at stake.
 - YouTuber from Denmark

I do not seek the presidency on the presumption I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need.
 - John McCain

I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty call for change that promises no more than a holiday from history.
 - John McCain

There's a huge difference between 'being easy to use' and 'only being easy to use'. 'Being easy to use' is important because it means there isn't a very high learning curve. That's good. 'Only being easy to use' is bad because it means once the initial learning curve is over, maybe you know the program but you can't actually do what you want to do. And that's bad. That's really bad. It's actually much worse than being hard to use to begin with in many ways. Game designers know about this. You don't want to make your games too challenging because if you do people never get 'into' them. But if you don't give people challenges along with the game and don't allow them to 'grow' with the game the game sucks. It might be as easy as making things just fall faster (Tetris) or it might be giving the person new capabilities ('bigger guns'). GNOME people seem to think once you get into it you never want to do anything more.
 - Linus Torvalds

Some people are just better off not being confused.
 - Linus Torvalds

I find it offensive how GNOME people can never just admit they can't do something. There's always an excuse. 'My grandma doesn't want to do it and finds it confusing.' That's not a word for word quote but it comes damn close. Really I'm not kidding. It's either 'grandma', 'mum', or a discussion about nipples and tits. It's never 'we can't do it please help us'.
 - Linus Torvalds

The reason I find GNOME limiting is because it is.
 - Linus Torvalds

We recommend a vote for Hillary Clinton in the March 4 presidential primary.
 - Akron Beacon Journal

Her resilience has deserved more attention. Clinton watchers point to her grit. There is something larger at work: her temperament stands out as one of her finest qualities. If both candidates represent a certain change, one seeking to become the first black president, the other the first woman president, the country is best served by the president with the knowledge, savvy, and temperament to push Washington forward, building coalitions at the political center. Barack Obama carries much promise of doing so. Hillary Clinton is the more proven leader.
 - Akron Beacon Journal

Obama presents himself as a transforming figure. Actually his campaign approach is familiar just as his proposals are more conventional, more candy for everyone than he suggests, his recent pandering on the trade issue especially disappointing. He is running as the classic outsider. The truth is Washington won't be changed in a dramatic way.
 - Akron Beacon Journal

Bill Clinton was looking for a tactical advantage when cautioned that electing Obama would be a roll of the dice. There is an element of truth in his words.
 - Akron Beacon Journal

One frequently noted virtue of Hillary Clinton is that she is battle tested, ready for whatever the Republicans throw at their opponent. Actually she is tested in a more telling way. Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has much direct management experience. Still of the three Clinton has been on the scene in the governor's office and in the White House, alert to the pace and the breadth of the job. That makes a difference. She understands well the unique demands of the presidency.
 - Akron Beacon Journal

No candidate in this race, Republican or Democrat, can match her command of issues foreign and domestic. Consider health care and education, two of the country's highest priorities. Clinton speaks to each with depth and clarity, articulating the value of universal health coverage or ways to repair the troubled student loan program.
 - Akron Beacon Journal

'As president of the United States of America' - why does Obama say that at the end of every argument? Should he be allowed to? If he should and if it is true he will be the next president of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA why are we having these debates or even this election? Why not just send Obama on holiday for the next eight months before his term? The point is: saying that repeatedly is clearly an underhanded tactic to somehow make America believe hey this guy is totally ready to be president. I think he could handle himself really well, much better than Clinton. You don't see her prematurely announcing victory 39 times every debate! She must not be ready.
 - 'BennyBlanco1986'

I don't believe in marriage, certainly not in this business. The truth is you get married and in a year or two they clean you out. It's just not going to work. We have contracts with artists that are 120 pages long and last five years. Then you go into marriage with no contract and the laws are a thousand years old. It doesn't work - it changes you. That whole culture just puts you in a very weakened position. I think the laws are crazy. I know a lot of people going through divorces now and once the lawyers get involved it starts to get nasty.
 - Simon Cowell

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