Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.
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has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president i... CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS Obama has placed himself in perfect political position: he spent the 2008 campaign convincing the Am... BEN SHAPIRO I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda. IAN SOMERHALDER She has to get out from under the cocoon of the White House and the president. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ... JOHN C. DANFORTH There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed ... ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constituti... ROBERT DALLEK Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton's legacy as First Lady... Michelle Obama never w... JODI KANTOR 'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tr... MONIQUE ROFFEY President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The art... MICHAEL RAMIREZ The making of the Barack Obama franchise far exceeded the skill set of Washington's best. In fac... ANDREW BREITBART Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal politi... WENDY E. LONG The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embat... CHUCK TODD The president and his open border allies may hate the fact that the Constitution gets in the way of ... PAUL GOSAR The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of th... ROBERT TEETER Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the peopl... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
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And, I'm only about 3½ hours from Hattiesbur... JODI COLLINS What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt? JODI PICOULT Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just ... JODI PICOULT I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giv... JODI PICOULT I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light. JODI LIVON You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one. JODI PICOULT Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing he... JODI PICOULT Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and j... JODI PICOULT Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It make... JODI PICOULT I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a ... 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JODI PICOULT What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by wha... JODI PICOULT When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the... JODI PICOULT The only way someone can leave you is if you let them. JODI PICOULT Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you. JODI PICOULT Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get? JODI PICOULT If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do... JODI PICOULT Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i... JODI PICOULT Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want... JODI PICOULT It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ... JODI PICOULT You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. JODI PICOULT Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned. JODI PICOULT