White House Corespondents Dinner Quotes

#1. Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Paul Brunton

#2. That's not him at all, just how you perceive him.

Lindsey Leavitt

#3. People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.

David Chang

#4. True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell

#5. Serenity comes from knowing what you can and can't change, Nancy

Patricia Cornwell

#6. My father taught me to see erudite a particular way. He never taught me that they made no judgments about what people believed, but designed things for them within the confines of those beliefs.

Veronica Roth

#7. I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

Jo Brand

#8. I represent what I think is a traditional Republican ... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

Olympia Snowe

#9. I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

China Mieville

#10. I'm also hard at work on plans for the Obama Library. And some have suggested that we put it in my birthplace, but I'd rather keep it in the United States.
Did anybody not see that joke coming? Show of hands.

Barack Obama