Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

J.K. Rowling

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

Jenna Bush

Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.

Kurt Vonnegut

Freedom can occur only through education.

Friedrich Schiller

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Sir Walter Scott

The days you work are the best days.

Georgia O'Keeffe

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

Mike Judge

I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.

Paris Hilton

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.

H. G. Wells