Political Quotes

“today, President Bush gave a major speech on corporate responsibility. He tells us he is going to get tough on those who have misled and defrauded shareholders in violation of Federal law. This could be a tough sell, considering the President's own record as a businessman. Yesterday, the President was still trying to explain why, in violation of Federal law, he failed to report his 1990 sale of $850,000 worth of stock in a Texas-based energy company just weeks before its value plummeted. Earlier he said he thought the regulators lost the documents. Last week, the White House owned up and blamed it on Mr. Bush's lawyers. Yesterday, President Bush gave maybe the most plausible explanation. He said, I still haven't figured it out completely. He hasn't figured out how he made $850,000 in a probably illegal stock sale. As the President spoke in New York today, I thought of the words of a civil rights leader who said, ``Don't tell me what you believe. Show me what you do; I will tell you what you believe.''”