"I use a different style if I'm..." - Quote by Barack Obama
I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.
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“I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.”
“My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.”
“Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.”
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“Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.”
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
“And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.”