From your lips to God's ears <s> In any case with Putin's autocracy becoming more and more of a factor in realpolitik over the next decade we are going to need Condi in some capacity.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. - Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. - Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
