Reality: some things I would prefer not to know but need to
Reaction: scared is an understatement, i'm not really big on action but knowing the reality and writing about it requires one to at least ATTEMPT to act.
Thank you for stepping down or should i say dropping out. You and I both know that your reason for dropping out has nothing to do with Uncle Teddy's health but we will keep that to ourselves. I am glad that cooler heads prevailed and that you have given up this egomaniacal need to sit in a seat you butt and brain can't fit.
"In other orders, i don't think people ought to be compelled to make the decision which they think is best for their family." - Washington D.C., December 11, 2002- regarding smallpox vaccinations
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighbourhoods." - Washington D.C., December 2000
"I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure." - Washington D.C., 2004
"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. i talk to families who die." - Washington D.C., December 7, 2006
"Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illeteracy level of our children are appalling" - Washington D.C., January 2004
one final one
"I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?" - Beaverton, Oregon, 2004
Some days happy some days not so happy but every day joyous
Don't tell me the federal response was slow when they were 30,000 people pulled off roofs right after the storm pass. Uh, I remember going to see those, umm, helicoptor drivers, coast car (or guard) drivers to thank them for their courageous effort to rescue........
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." - LaCrosse, Wisconsin, October 18, 2000
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the internet." - Arlington Heights, Illionois, October 2000
"One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards." - Washington, D.C., October 11, 2006
"They want the federal government controlling the Social Security like it's some kind of federal program." - St. Charles, MO campaign speech, November 2000
"Wow! Brazil is big!" - Upon seeing a map of Brazil at a meeting with the Brazilian President, November 2005
"We thought we were protected forever from trade policy or terrorist attacks because oceans protected us." - Santiago, Chile, November 20 2004 at the APEC Summit
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness." - CNN online chat, August 2000
"security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace." - Pittsburgh, Pennysylvania, July 2003
"America better beware of a candidate who is willing to stretch reality in order to win points." - Aboard the 2000 campaign plane, September 2000
"The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. that's why they're fighting so vociferously" - First presidential debate, Coral Gables, Florida, September 30 , 2004