No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?