A Promised Land

by Barack Obama

It’s embedded in founding documents that could simultaneously proclaim all men equal and yet count a slave as three-fifths of a man.

“What’s the point of having a fancy law degree if you can’t take some risks?

no matter how my circumstances may have changed, theirs had not.

In his hands, the lowly memorandum approached an art form, each one efficient and oddly inspiring.

Ten more years in the Senate won’t make you a better president.

I wondered how he took the measure of his own life, and his brothers’ lives, the terrible price each one of them had paid in pursuit of a dream.

You may be a little too normal, too well-adjusted, to run for president.

the political equivalent of one of those boy bands dreamed up by a studio marketing department.

“Your problem,” he said, “is you keep trying to answer the question.” “Isn’t that the point?” I said.

And if I won, they could count on me raising their taxes.

Tewes would set the tone for our Iowa operation—grassroots, no hierarchies, irreverent, and slightly manic.

I was starting to look different from my Democratic rivals in more ways than the obvious one.

“Well, Hillary, I’m looking forward to you advising me as well.”

I would acc be so pissed wtf