At his stop in Milwaukee, Mr. Kerry voiced his newest challenge to the president, borrowing from Muhammad Ali's famous taunt to George Foreman to say, "Mr. President, is that all you've got?" "Let me tell you what I've got," Mr. Kerry added.
It could also help if the president borrowed some language from the bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate last year.
It's possible that the sports-minded president, borrowing from previous presidents in times of war, would urge Major League Baseball to resume its schedule to lighten the mood of the country.
And, just as President Bush had borrowed from movie-poster lingo in his reports to the American public — the vow to capture bin Laden "dead or alive," and the adoption of Hollywood-style titles such as "Infinite Justice" — so the Chinese video-makers had been quick to spot the star potential of the world's most-wanted terrorist.
What an inauguration it was!! Who can forget the words of the new President as he borrowed from the oratory of his campaign to look out at the sea of faces and say "HELLOOOO WASHINGTON"?
Mr. McCain even thinks the president could borrow from Britain and institute a version of "question time" when the prime minister has to answer questions from Parliament.
Fox News' John Roberts said that report is "not good for the president" and, borrowing from "I Love Lucy" co-star Desi Arnaz, said Obama has some "'splainin to do' today touting his economic record".
My answer is, we must work hard to make it happen, and, yes, we can — that is borrowed from President Obama".
And, it is a slice of that same "squeezed middle" — a term borrowed from President Bill Clinton by the opposition leader Ed Miliband to denote what was once called the lower middle-class — which feels singularly threatened by the coalition's contentious plans to reduce Britain's crippling deficit through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts.
In a speech to the Barnardo's children's charity, Gove underlined the importance of acting by borrowing one of Barack Obama's most famous phrases from the US presidential election campaign about the "fierce urgency of now", which the president had in turn borrowed from Martin Luther King.
