"You don't take it personally. You understand..." - Quote by Barack Obama
You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.
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“The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.”
“It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.”
“I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.”
More on Leadership
“And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.”
“That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.”
“The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.”
More on Public Opinion
“When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.”
“People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.”
“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.”