A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. |
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. |
How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? |
I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing. |
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. |
There's an old saying that you can't open a new circus until the old circus leaves town. It was just inevitable that this is going to continue to hang over their heads because the investigation continues. The Libby-Rove-Cheney story continues to have legs, and it's going to continue to for some time. And the war still goes on. |
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. |
We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. |
What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is abnormal. It's an aberration to have a team stay as long as this one has. |
When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold. |
Win or lose, he realized that it was going to be very difficult to govern and that the better part of valor was to step aside. |