Voting Is A Civic Sacrament.

Bill Walton, Uh Volleyball Coach, After His Player Kept Looking At Him On The Bench Every Time The Ball Hit The Floor...next Time You Look At Me I'll Put You On The Bench Where You Can See Me Better. My Basic Principle Is That You Don't Make Decisions Because They Are Easy; You Don't Make Them Because They Are Cheap; You Don't Make Them Because They Are Popular. You Make Them Because They Are Right.

The Melting Pot Failed To Function In One Crucial Area. Religions And Nationalities, However Different, Generally Learned To Live Together, Even To Grow Together, In America. But Color Was Something Else. Reds Were Murdered Like Wild Animals. Yellows Were Characterized As A Peril And Incarcerated En Masse During World War Ii For No Really Good Reason By Our Most Liberal President. Browns Have Been Abused As The New Slave Labor On Farms. The Blacks, Who Did Not Come Here Willingly, Are Now, More Than A Century After Emancipation By Lincoln, Still Suffering A Host Of Slave Like Inequalities.

The Greatest Fallout Of The Space Program, ... Was Not The Close-up View Of The Moon, But A Look At Spaceship Earth From Afar. For The First Time In The History Of Humanity, We Were Able To See Our Planet For What It Really Is.

I Can Think Of No Better Way Of Redeeming This Tragic World Today Than Love And Laughter. Too Many Of The Young Have Forgotten How To Laugh, And Too Many Of The Elders Have Forgotten How To Love. Would Not Our Lives Be Lightened If Only We Could All Learn To Laugh More Easily At Ourselves And To Love One Another?

I'll Have Another Beer. I'm Not Driving.