Political Quotes

“Winter tames man, woman, and beast,'' but Robert Browning has announced the good news: The year's at the spring. And the day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven-- All's right with the world. Even as I stand here on the floor of the U.S. Senate, an imperceptible miracle is taking place all around us--on the Capitol Grounds, around the U.S. Capitol Building, on The Mall, along the banks of the Potomac, in the parks--and in the adjacent countryside. Without our feeling it, and with few people taking notice of it, the axis on which planet Earth spins is changing its angle. That change of angles has been going on annually without interruption apparently for billions of years. Off the coast of southern California, the change in the angle of the Earth's axis will bring the swallows back to Capistrano. Off the coast of the Carolinas, the change in the angle of the Earth's axis will bring sunbathers back to the beaches on the Outer Banks and vacationers to the Grand Strand along Myrtle Beach. And as that angle shifts, drastic changes will occur, and suddenly, the cherry blossoms will pop open and within a few days be gone. With little advance notice, temperatures here will shoot up into the eighties--one day 65 degrees, the next day 85 degrees.…”