Rich Galen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.
-- Rich Galen

#Democracy #Firsts #Election
The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.
-- Rich Galen

#Government #Dawn #Watches
I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.
-- Rich Galen

#White #House #Weakness
You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
-- Rich Galen

#Blood #Smell #Water
Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.
-- Rich Galen

#Jobs #Bills #Stimulus
If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid of the Second, this would be a far different country.
-- Rich Galen

#Country #Trying #Different

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

Rich Galen famous quotes

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