...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).
Barack ObamaWe have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.
Barack ObamaWe may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.
Barack ObamaInsurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.
Barack Obama