President Obama’s critics have made it a practice to attack his supposed lack of strength.

Source: www.newyorker.com

Wise, tough or shrewd?

 

"We don’t need tough guys. We need wise guys. We’ve tried tough guys, and it always ends in tears. Tough guys you know right away because they’re never scared of a fight. Wise guys you only know in retrospect, when you remember that they quietly walked away from the fight that now has the tough guy in a hospital. Wise women do that, too."

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