[ClearCase_guy]

She’s in Alaska.

[BenLurkin]

[Missouri gal]

I'm convinced that do-no-gooders actively seek out conservative leaders in early career phases for character assassination. Sarah Palin is only one example. If not that, they will try bribery, coercion or anything to turn them. Jesse Jackson was pro-life. Trent Lott was character assassinated over a remark made in private that is pitifully ridiculous in comparison to things said by liberals. I've seen high school kids turned into liberals by the relentless misdirection of their liberal teachers. If a truly promising leader like Winston Churchill or George Washington were alive today, they would resign from politics or be forced out.

[econjack]

Then, from Rev. Sharpton...

Al has not earned the title of Rev. He never went to divinity school, never had a church, never had a congregation. Same is true for Jesse Jackson. Al was "ordained" by a DC preacher when he was 10 years old, yet he perpetuates the lie.

[TomGuy]

I have posted in other threads that we ‘need a statesman to clean up the messes caused by the last 4 president.’

It is difficult to find a person who is more concerned about the future of the nation than in his/her own personal power and wealth.

Many went to Washington with bright ideals, but they quickly succumb to the seductive power of politics. It is a long way from feet of clay to statues of bronze.

[QBFimi]

What great quotes. Thanks for posting.

[oldbrowser]

Men like Churchill don’t come around but once in a lifetime.

[Gaffer]

Unfortunately, the term “statesman” has always been a misnomer. And, over the years, the “state” part of the word has become the operative word. Certainly, we’ve seen no real “men” for several years - almost anywhere on the globe.

The truth of the matter is that any great “statesman” has always backed up their words with outstanding action and deeds. So it was with Churchill, even Thatcher (who had the spine and figurative balls of a man), Reagan (PATCO, the Wall, Star Wars etc.) and the like.

What we now have is a prayer-rugged, curtain-hanging puppet community organizer/disrupter who can only “state,” not “do”. And when he decides to try and “do,” he lies or f@cks it up and has to regroup and re-message the optics.

[RobinOfKingston]

Contrast [Churchill's resolve] with the current administration’s waffling over Syria, ...

Makes the pettiness of the return of the Churchill bust more understandable.

[PGalt]

https://www.google.com/search?q=we’re+all+socialists+now+newsweek&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=AvglUpr6D8nayAHkh4G4Ag&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1695&bih=871

[GOPJ]

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Great stuff... thanks for the post...

[EternalVigilance]

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

— Winston Churchill

[workerbee]

Here's the last one I'm likely to see in my lifetime.

[EternalVigilance]

True statesmen are principled.

They understand that our individual rights come from God, not men, and that those rights are therefore unalienable.

They understand that just government exists to secure those rights.

We’ve been scouring the land for such people. Finding a few. Having to raise up the rest from the grassroots.

http://www.selfgovernment.us/be-a-leader.html

[ßuddaßudd]

Vacation ?