On Biblical Determination...
"I wish they were as determined to keep drugs out of the schools as they are the bible."
--Bumper sticker seen in northern Virginia on 10/26/96.
On The Democratic Party: For People Who Don't Work...
"Charleston (W.V.): The United Mine Workers union called a one-day walkout for Election Day so members can vote for the Democratic candidate for governor."
--USA Today, November 4, 1996. Outrage duJour for 11/5/96
On Powerful Words...
"Ultimately the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself."
--Elie Wiesel, in Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea. From Quotable Quotes
in the 11/96 Reader's Digest.
On Voter Education...
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
--Thomas Jefferson. Received via C-News, 11/8/96.
On Learning the Basics...
"In 1994, a survey of 1200 people, ages 15 to 35, found that most of those polled could name no more than two [of the Ten] Commandments, and as the essayist Cullen Murphy writes, 'They weren't too happy about some of the others when they were told about them.'"
--John Leo, U.S. News & World Report for 11/18/96. Page 16.
On Reflection...
"When he was first in office, Mr. Clinton tried being a leader, with disastrous results. Now, he settles for being a mirror. The role suits him. He perfectly reflects the confessional, narcissistic, cynical, opportunistic, personality-driven times."
--Columnist Maureen Dowd, in the New York Times, 9/12/96. From RNC Rising
Tide for November/December 1996.