"In the end, that's what this election..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.”

“I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".”

“I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.”

“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

“You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”

“There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.”

“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.”

“What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.”

“All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.”