A Presidential Speech Is Always The Work

One Can Shape History As Much Through The Facts One Omits As Through The Facts One Includes.

So If I Have Two Pieces Of Cake, Do I Have Twice As Good An Experience As The First Piece Of Cake? One Of The Things I've Found In Life Is That The First Piece Of Cake Is The Best.

So Little Of What Makes A Democracy Work Is Written Down. So Much Of It Is Just The Things You Don't Do. There Are A Lot Of Things That A Prime Minister Or A President Can Do And They Don't Do Them Because It Never Occurs To Them To Do Them.

It's Very Important To Understand That 21st Century Authoritarian Rule Does Not Look Like 20th Century Authoritarian Rule. You're Not Going To Have People In Parade Ground Formations. You're Not Going To Have A Police State. You're Not Going To People With Decorative Armbands Bullying People On The Sidewalks. And The Leaders Won't Stand At Microphones For Hours Ranting At People. All Of That Is So 80 Years Ago.

If You Go On Tv And Say There's No Other Country In The World Where You Can Be Born Poor And Become Rich, You Get A Huge Megaphone. If You Tell The Truth, Which Is That Most Of The Studies Show Actually The United States Is Worse Than Anybody Except Britain In Upward Mobility, There Is No Audience For You.