"I misspoke"

-The Clintons

I always avoided having a political saying, as you'll have to defend it all the time. If there's one that I must quote, it'd be "L'union fait la for

There are three classes of people; the unmovable, the movable, and the movers.

- Benjamin Franklin

Translation for the poor linguistically challenged?

It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.  -Calvin Coolidge

Mr. Gorbachav, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!

- Ronald Wilson Reagan

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy "accommodation." And they say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer

> Einstein wrote:
> Mr. Gorbachav, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!
- Ronald Wilson Reagan <

What a lovely speech that was. Mikhail Gorbachev would have probably said something witty back but he was probably busy trying to get the USSR and Political Openness (perestroika) to work in the middle of what was probably the worst economic crash in history thanks to Kruschev and his idiot penis-measuring competition with Nixon.

Or...

http://tinyurl.com/32a5nw5
(squeezing them in whilst the constitution still allows it)

Marines don't retreat, they advance in a different direction.

We sometimes wonder if we will have a positive effect upon the world, marines don't have that problem.

The only difference between a hockey mom and a lion? Lipstick.

George Orwell said everything was political, even the declaration that you are apolitical, is a political statement.

> Chris_Balsz wrote:

> >>Mikhail Gorbachev would have probably said something witty back but he was probably busy trying to get the USSR and Political Openness (perestroika) to work in the middle of what was probably the worst economic crash in history thanks to Kruschev and his idiot penis-measuring competition with Nixon.<<

Oh, were they having an economic crash in 1985? Nobody else was.

When I say Nobody Else I include Cuba and China.

Maybe he should have collapsed the USSR early, and enjoyed the standard of living enjoyed by Luxembourg? Ya think?<

  In a manner of speaking. You have to remember that the arms race really stretched USSRs plannedness, the sheer size of, and sheer control of USSRs economy meant that the impact was slowed.
I wonder if it somehow made things worse or if it was going to be that bad anyway.

  Yeah, well... they cheated.

  Actually, probably.