At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.
The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.
I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.
I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
