Tom Mathews

“you could build power not by putting others down but by lifting them up.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“People who have no choice are generally unhappy. But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those who have no choice at all.”
― Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

“Perhaps most troubling of all, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis—a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be; a crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful, and has allowed for an ongoing breach of institutional norms, procedural safeguards, and the adherence to basic facts that both Republicans and Democrats once took for granted.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Dream is not what you see in sleep. Dream is something which does not let you sleep.”
― Dr. Joseph K Thomas, India - The Next Superpower: Tame The Dragon, Unleash The Tiger