Autobiography Quote by Jonathan Raban

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout…

— Jonathan Rauch

'Walking and Talking' is my autobiography. It's best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then ends up…

— Kathy Burke

I think most presidents are amazed at the overwhelming responsibility they have when they enter office and the tremendous amount of work there is.…

— Billy Graham

The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of…

— David Limbaugh

Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice…

— Simon Critchley

Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends,…

— Jonathan Raban

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama,…

— James Fallows

'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical…

— David Garrow

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams…

— Ziggy Marley

After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove…

— Barack Obama

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions…

— Barack Obama

Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it…

— Fred Kaplan