Quote-a-palooza
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” —James Madison
“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.” —Fredrich August von Hayek
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” —Mother Teresa
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” —Phillips Brooks
“This is a message from the voters that we really need to step up and reclaim the mantle of reform that propelled us to power 12 years ago.” —Rep. Eric Cantor
“The House has just engaged in runaway spending for far too long... [T]he one thing we could have stopped, but didn’t, was runaway spending.” —Rep. Jeff Flake
“I don’t care how many times the news programs, papers and magazines tell us the blowout last night was because of the Iraq war. It wasn’t. It was because the American public has decided that Republicans are no longer good stewards of the U.S. Congress and threw them out.” —Rich Galen
“I think a fairly good case can be made that the story of Election 2006 is more about poorly-led House Republicans losing than Democrats winning.” —John Berthoud, president of the National Taxpayers Union
“Republicans have made matters worse by abandoning the reform agenda that animated their capture of Congress in 1994 and helped George Bush win the White House in 2000 and keep it in 2004. With scarcely a fight, Republicans gave up on Social Security reform in 2005, immigration reform in 2006, and never really got started on tax reform.” —Fred Barnes
“John Kerry apologized and some political analysts are now saying that Senator John Kerry’s botched joke about the troops hurt his chances at becoming president in 2008. Yeah, apparently, Kerry’s chances at becoming president went from zero to less than zero.” —Conan O’Brien