Donilon Quotes

#1. Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush's presidency - the apparatus, personnel and mind-set of war making.

Bob Woodward

#2. Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

Major Jackson

#3. Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Claudia Rankine

#4. President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks ... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is 'all in.'

Thomas E. Donilon

#5. Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.

Thomas E. Donilon

#6. The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

Thomas E. Donilon

#7. There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

Bertrand Russell

#8. If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

Wendy Kopp

#9. Stonetooth took his place. "I give you a life for duty," he meowed. "Remember what you owe to your Clan as well as what your Clan owes to you." He touched noses with Brokentail, who flexed his claws briefly and then was still.

Erin Hunter

#10. I don't think anybody has indicated that I did anything but do my job at Fannie Mae.

Thomas E. Donilon

#11. Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

Mike Lowry

#12. You pretty much have to take the job since you hit him with the car.

Kathy Bryson

#13. I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

Thomas E. Donilon

#14. More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

Thomas E. Donilon