The Battle For The Mind Of Ronald

My Generation, Faced As It Grew With A Choice Between Religious Belief And Existential Despair, Chose Marijuana. Now We Are In Our Cabernet Stage.

The Biggest Political Change In My Lifetime Is That Americans No Longer Assume That Their Children Will Have It Better Than They Did. This Is A Huge Break With The Past, With Assumptions And Traditions That Shaped Us.

Mr. Bush Has Squandered The Hard-built Paternity Of 40 Years. But So Has The Party, And So Have Its Leaders. If They Had Pushed Away For Serious Reasons, They Could Have Separated The Party's Fortunes From The President's. This Would Have Left A Painfully Broken Party, But They Wouldn't Be Left With A Ruined Brand,- As They All Say, Speaking The Language Of Marketing. And They Speak That Language Because They Are Marketers, Not Thinkers. Not Serious About Policy. Not Serious About Ideas. And Not Serious About Leadership, Only Followership.

If You Join Government, Calmly Make Your Contribution And Move On. Don't Go Along To Get Along; Do Your Best And When You Have To - And You Will - Leave, And Be Something Else.

I Love Eulogies. They Are The Most Moving Kind Of Speech Because They Attempt To Pluck Meaning From The Fog, And On Short Order, When The Emotions Are Still Ragged And Raw And Susceptible To Leaps.