Quotes of the Week: 'It Takes a Lot of Patience to be the President'

Sept. 29, 2012— -- intro: Check out this week's buzziest, funniest and craziest quotes from around the world.

quicklist: 1title: 'It Takes a Lot of Patience to be the President of the United States, and I'm Not That Patient'text: President Obama and the first lady appeared for the first time together on ABC's "The View."

The president suggested that after he leaves office, whether it's next year or in 2016, that his wife would make a great politician.

"She should run for office, but she says she doesn't want to," the president said.

"Yeah, no," the first lady said to laughter.

"I mean, Michelle would be terrific," the president said. "But temperamentally I just don't think..."

"No, it's absolutely true," Michelle Obama continued. "It takes a lot of patience to be the president of the United States, and I'm not that patient."'

The first lady said she enjoyed being able to hand-pick projects she's passionate about, and would continue focusing on helping veterans returning from war and their families in the coming years.

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quicklist: 2title: 'At Any Rate, a Fake'text: It made quite a stir when it came out -- a fragment of fourth-century papyrus with wording on it, in ancient Coptic, that read, "Jesus said to them, 'My wife….'" The next line said, "…she will be able to be my disciple…."

That was all. Karen L. King of Harvard Divinity School said she had the papyrus examined and concluded that while it wasn't proof Jesus had been married, the fragment was probably not a forgery.

The Vatican, though, has now weighed in, and it's not impressed. "At any rate, a fake" was the title of an editorial in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.

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quicklist: 3title: 'When I Close My Eyes, I'll Be With the Father'text: Texas executed its ninth prisoner of 2012 Tuesday after death row inmate Cleve Foster, 48, failed to obtain a last-minute stay from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Foster was convicted in 2002 of helping his roommate, Sheldon Ward, kill a Fort Worth, Texas, woman and hide her body in the woods. Ward, however, wrote a death-bed note before he died in prison saying that he'd acted alone, and Foster had nothing to do with the murder.

Foster has maintained his innocence, but didn't mention that as he was executed. Instead, according to The Associated Press, he expressed love for his family and God before the drugs took effect, he began snoring and then he stopped breathing.

"When I close my eyes, I'll be with the father," he said. "God is everything. He's my life. Tonight I'll be with him."

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quicklist: 4title: 'Winning an Ig Nobel Has Been My Dream as a Mad Scientist'text: It is a big deal to win a Nobel Prize. It is less of a deal to win an Ig Nobel Prize -- but it's usually a lot funnier.

This year's Ig Nobel Prizes were given out with great ceremony (read: loud cackles) by the journal Annals of Improbable Research Thursday night at Harvard University. They're not necessarily for the least important research, or for work that was badly done, just for, well, the silliest-sounding.

Among the winners were two Japanese engineers who took home the acoustics prize "for creating the SpeechJammer -- a machine that disrupts a person's speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay.

"Winning an Ig Nobel has been my dream as a mad scientist," said Kazutaka Kurihara, the co-inventor of the SpeechJammer.