“We are the makers of history, not its victims.”

“If you think all these terrible things about Obama, he asked the woman, how can you possibly be undecided?Because if McCain dies, Palin would be president, she said.”

“Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.”

“You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.”

“Understanding is not about progress; its about process. What we may finally come to understand is that we won't,can't,understand and that incomprehension is essential to our existance. Mystery is our maker.”

“The work of today is the history of tomorrow and we are its makers”

“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.”