Donilon Obama Quotes & Sayings

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. — John Millington Synge

There was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer. — Herman Melville

As Donilon [President Obama's security advisor] would tell me, Obama said: Here's the deal. I want this hunt for Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri to come to the front of the line. I worry that the trail has gone cold. This has to be our top priority and it needs leadership in the tops of your organizations. You need to ensure that we have expended every effort to take down the top leadership of al Qaeda, especially these two individuals. And I want regular reports on this *to me* and I want them starting in thirty days.
Donilon followed up and drove and drove the point home with a memo, which the president signed. He sent it to each of those present. It read: 'In order to ensure that we have extended every effort - directly provide to me a detailed operational plan for locating and bringing to justice Osama bin Laden. — Mark Bowden

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs. — Bruce Springsteen

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

If I live long enough the luck will change. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over. — Alberto Juantorena

Dunce is completely bald and has a really pointed head so the temptation to get him paralytic on his thirtieth birthday, carry him to the tattooist's and get a nice big 'D' smack bang in the middle of his forehead was too much for me. Trouble is he can't afford to have it removed so he wears a big plaster over it. Gangs of children tease him.

'What's underneath the plaster, mister? Show us!'

They swear he has a third eye under there.

My name is Bill but Dunce calls me 'Fez' on account of my hat. I've known Dunce for over sixteen years. — Mike Russell

I can do whatever I want, yet I find it eternally difficult to choose where to begin. Or if to begin at all. — J.A. Redmerski

But one cannot avenge a death, not really. One can only try to honor the memory of the dead by furthering their life's work to the best of one's ability. — Delphine Dryden

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements. — Leonardo Da Vinci

When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause. — Chogyam Trungpa

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time ... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile. — Alton Brown

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today! — Carmela Dutra

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