Exactly how many letter "O"s were removed from Executive Office keyboards this past Tuesday?
Just wondering....
Yes, liberals. You now have complete responsibility. You lead all three branches of government. For years and years you've talked about how you'd fix the country if only... Well, "if only" is now here. Let's see it happen without delay.
By the way, President Reagan inherited a much worse situation from Jimmah Carter: double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, and sky-high interest rates. The Big Zero has received greater than 93% employment, almost no inflation, and very low interest rates, so I expect him to get this worked out within the year. A cursory study of economic history shows the clear way out of it.
One thing's for sure: there had better not be a SINGLE terrorist attack in the next four years. Not a one.
Compean and Ramos have had their sentences commuted. It's about time, and long, long overdue. Of course, he had to be stubborn about it and do it on his last full day in office. And, showing Carter-like obdurateness, it's not a pardon, it's a commutation. They won't get out of prison until March.
Nevertheless, after more than two years, he finally did the right thing.
President Bush, thank you for keeping us safe after the September 11 terrorist attacks. You have been vigilant in defending our nation, and we are thankful. Moreover, you have brought honor and dignity back to the Office of the President. And you correctly pressed for and got tax rate cuts passed that kept our economy growing after the terrorist attacks. Thank you for these things.
But you have brought so much disappointment to conservatives (and yes, I know you're not a conservative).
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
Every immigrant makes America more American. You can't become an Englishman by going to live in England, or a Frenchman by going to live in France, but anyone can become an American.
Ronald Reagan
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.
Daniel Webster
While capitalism and socialism exist side by side, they cannot live in peace. One or the other will triumph — a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet Republic or over world capitalism.
Lenin, On Peaceful Coexistence, 1920
The family, however, has to be a sacred unity believing in the permanence of what it teaches, if its ritual and ceremony are to express and transmit the wonder of the moral law, which it alone is capable of transmitting and which makes it special in a world devoted to the humanly, all too humanly, useful. When that belief disappears, as it has, the family has, at best, a transitory togetherness.
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, page 57, 1987
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now ... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.
John F. Kennedy
We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our national prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence they had for the things that are holy.
Calvin Coolidge
The issue as regards judicial activism is not whether there shall be "change” since no one is against generic "change" but who shall wield the enormous power of prescribing the particular nature and direction of change and by whose authorization? More specifically, shall it be done openly by officials assigned this task by the Constitution and responsible to the voters, or shall it be done furtively by unelected judges using verbal sleight-of-hand to attribute to the Constitution things that the Constitution never said? The issue is preemption of power, not "change."
Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed, page 230, 1995
America, is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.
Joseph Stalin
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens.
George Washington, Farewell Address