Speeches Are Not Magic And There Is

In The 1950s And '60s The [democrat] Party Included Many Obviously Earnest And Thoughtful Liberals Who Supported Goals That Were In Line With And Expressions Of Serious Beliefs. They Believed That America Was An Exceptional Country.

The 2008 Election Settled Nothing, Not Even For A While. Our National Politics Are Reflecting What Appears To Be Going On Geologically, On The Bottom Of The Oceans And Beneath The Crust Of The Earth: The Tectonic Plates Are Moving.

One Way To Keep People Close To You Is By Not Giving Them Enough. ... With People Who Give A Lot Of Themselves, You Sometimes Lean Back - But With People Who Give Little You Often Lean Forward, As If They're A Spigot In The Desert And You're The Empty Cup. It Is The Tropism Of Deprivation: We Lean Toward Those Who Do Not Give.

The Biggest Political Change In My Lifetime Is That Americans No Longer Assume That Their Children Will Have It Better Than They Did. This Is A Huge Break With The Past, With Assumptions And Traditions That Shaped Us.

Beware The Politically Obsessed. They Are Often Bright And Interesting, But They Have Something Missing In Their Natures; There Is A Hole, An Empty Place, And They Use Politics To Fill It Up. It Leaves Them Somehow Misshapen.