“I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.” KnowsFirstsLongAmericaBlackPresidentEffortRaceStruggleHighestPagesFinishedDespiteChaptersBest Effort Author:Hillary Clinton
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean.” MeanPresidentFlowerPagesShotsIranWebsitePresident Of Iran Author:Eddie Mair
“Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.” IfsFeelsWritingHumansBodyTurnsLanguagePresidentAbilityStudentsMoonPagesMake SenseQueensPhrasesOutsidersHuman ExperienceFacilityHowlHomecomingHomecoming Queen Author:Karen Karbo
“It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.” ShouldHas BeensStatesWholeLastsPresidentSpaceUnitedFictionTechnologyUnited StatesFantasyPagesShould HaveCamerasScience FictionBrilliantInstantExcessDevotedMiceDisneylandMickeyTrivia Author:J. G. Ballard