Did Obama quote Alinsky in Mideast policy address?

Norman Taylor

In his defining work, "Rules for Radicals," which he dedicated to "the first rebel," Lucifer, Alinsky used those words to lay out his main agenda – that radical change must be brought about by working within a system instead of attacking a system from the outside.
"It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system," wrote Alinsky.

Saul Alinsky

Did Obama quote Alinsky in Mideast policy address?

JERUSALEM: In his major address on the Middle East last week, did President Obama quote from the centerpiece of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky's defining work? While hailing the Arab uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North ..