I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Barack Obama

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
Barack Obama

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'
Barack Obama

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen

If a man has done his best, what else is there?
George S. Patton

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
Oprah Winfrey

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller