“To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.” PresidentCareersSuccessfulRecordsTeamDecidedCampaignsBusinessmanAttackingRomneyDisappointingPrivate SectorSuccessful BusinessSuccessful Businessman Author:Reince Priebus
“As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.” PresidentTeamEconomicMonthsMembersSpotsFormerPresident ObamaLegislationStimulusInauguration Author:Christina Romer
“General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.” MadePresidentDecisionSuccessfulGreaterTeamMiracleWorkersBeing SuccessfulCan NotSelf MadeMiracle Worker Author:Jim Talent
“I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.” ChildrenPresidentClassTeamBoxesCaptainsValentineSidelinesClass PresidentTeam Captain Author:Lois Lowry
“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.” ThinkingYearsAbleSchoolPresidentLeaderHappenedTeamTaughtSonBaseballThirdsFormerCorporationsAweGradesImmigrantsStringsItalianTraveledPitcherDeanPhilanthropistMiltonHanging AroundDineGrades In SchoolFinanciersBaseball Team Author:Tommy Lasorda
“After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'” ThinkingWantShouldSaidGamesPresidentWeekTeamBasketballGolfMore TimePresident ObamaCrushedJordanCharlotteBasketball TeamGolf GameHornets Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.” IfsFirstsBelieveTogetherPresidentTeamTomorrowChosenBarackTransitionDiscipleIf You Believe Author:Jay Leno
“Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.” ShouldMeanChildrenFactsPoliticalPresidentClassTeamStudentsBallsOur ChildrenIndividualityTeenagerYour ChildrenActivistCaptainsSeniorBelleLacrosseBetaSenior Class Book:You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25 Source: You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25
“When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.” DifferentBodyGuyPresidentLaughingHeardTeamStudentsFootballGasLunchCaptainsQuirkyFootball TeamMake You LaughGas Money Author:Sarah Dessen