"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. [...] He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. [...] So, what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. [...] He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do."
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Valerie Jarrett, in an interview with David Remnick, published in "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama" (2010), p. 274. Quoted in Politico, November 5, 2010.
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Barack Obama
politician, lawyer, political writer
1961 · United States
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