There’s no excuse for a grown man to have an affair with an intern, whether his name is Bill Clinton or Jack Kennedy. What the former president did was wrong. Susan Estrich
May 14, 2003
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into …
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Gore: ‘I’ve accepted for two or three months now your invitation …
Gore: ‘I’ve accepted for two or three months now your invitation to debate on this program [Meet the Press with Tim Russert]. Have you gotten a yes from Governor Bush yet?’Russert: ‘His campaign says he will debate you, and the request is under consideration.’Gore: ‘Well, how are you going to persuade him to say yes, Tim?’Russert:’Well, maybe you’re helping today.’Gore: ‘Well, do you think so? But what kind of approach – can you get [GE CEO Jack Welch, NBC’s owner] involved?’ Al Gore
July 16, 2000, NBC transcripts and Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2000. When Governor Bush accepted this invitation in early September, the press tarred him with ‘ducking’ the debates because he agreed to be on Meet The Press, conveniently ignoring this exchange. Even ignoring that Gore said he would debate ‘any time, any where.’
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, …
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)
Either you think – or else others have to think for you and …
Either you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night.
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo… Anonymous …
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo…
Anonymous
The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your …
The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it. James A. Donald
To support the death penalty requires placing your trust in state actors …
To support the death penalty requires placing your trust in state actors in our criminal justice system: police, prosecutors and the courts. That trust has been betrayed too many times. Timothy Lynch
Directory, Cato Institute’s Criminal Justice Project, Reason Magazine, July 2001
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of …
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. Ronald Wilson Reagan
President , address to the National Alliance of Business (October 5, 1981) E
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a …
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, August 15, 1986