I find comfort in the fact that the longer I’m in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.

I find comfort in the fact that the longer I’m in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience.

– Barack Obama –

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

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