Political Quotes

“there is a saying, an old adage, that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Over the past week, the dramatic firing of James Comey has recalled past events--history that involved one of the major scandals in our Nation's past--the Watergate scandal. In Watergate, the saying originated--another very common saying--that the coverup is worse than the crime. The danger now in the United States--the greatest country in the history of the world, with the most effective and fair justice on our planet--is that, in fact, there may be a coverup, and that the truth will be stifled, and people who should be held accountable will not be. That is the danger. In this instance, in comparison to Watergate, actually, the crime is extraordinarily serious. In Watergate, there was a two-bit break-in or burglary, and the coverup, in fact, involved obstruction of justice. What we have here is a deliberate, purposeful assault on our American democracy by the Russians through a cyber attack that involved, really, in effect, an act of war--a combination of cyber, propaganda, and misinformation spread deliberately; it involved hacking into both major parties and the spread of the results of that hacking for one of those parties--possibly influencing the outcome of the election. The issue of whether and how the outcome of that election may have been influenced will be discussed and contended through the annals of history.…”