“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

Thomas Paine

This proposed cabinet is like a bad tv pilot from a local access channel.

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

Cicero

“What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.”

Hunter S. Thompson

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

Albert Einstein

“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”

T. S. Eliot

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." ~ Mark Twain

“If fidelity to freedom of democracy is the code of our civic religion then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten commandment that says we shall give our children better than we ourselves received.”
-Josiah Bartlett

#westwing