“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.“
George W. Bush, Washington DC, 12 May, 2008
* So I did some checking to get a source for this, and as I expected, it’s slightly taken out of context (Bush was trying to infer that someone would be impressed with what he accomplished). The interview was done by Shmuel Rosner of Haaretz.com – you can see the full transcript here.
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01-20-2009 – new day rising
“As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.”
Barack Obama, Washington DC, 20 January, 2009