Political Quotes

“this weekend, I was thinking about all of the criticism President Trump is receiving right now from some in the liberal media and from some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle as they kind of look down their necks with: I am smarter than you. You are all wrong. You silly person. These sorts of narratives are going on all over the place. As I heard it this weekend, it reminded me of a book that I read back in the nineties about President Reagan. It was a biography--``Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader.'' If you will remember back then--I was relatively young, but I remember people saying that Ronald Reagan has got this idea of Star Wars--they called it Star Wars--because he felt he had an obligation to protect the American people by having some sort of a shield against missiles. Now we call that HIMARS, and Israel calls it the Iron Dome. We have technologies deployed in space that are effectively a realization of that vision, but he was a silly actor from California who didn't know anything. What he did know was vision, what he did know were adversaries, and what he did know were other countries that were failing to do their part in defending and protecting democracy. How does that relate to President Trump? President Trump, over the past couple of weeks, has said things--and you have to admit, when the President talks, he talks in big, beautiful words. He said something about Canada being the 51st State.…”