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"More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun."

Eric Alterman on Cool

More quotes about Cool

• "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

  Thomas Jefferson on Cool

• "Rather be dead than cool."

  Kurt Cobain on Cool

• "All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."

  Angelina Jolie on Cool

• "Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

  Walt Whitman on Cool

• "It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof."

  Bill Gates on Cool

More quotes by Eric Alterman

• "To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad."

• "Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding."

• "Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience."

• "If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'"

• "Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election."