What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

"Wenn sich amerikanischer Optimismus mit europäischer Erfahrung verbinden ließe, dann wäre das wohl die perfekte politische Mischung."

Henry Kissinger in einem Interview mit Die Welt

Laura Bush was funny and risked alienating Christian conservatives and defenders of family values, when she made these jokes at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner:

 "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife. I mean, if those women on that show think they're desperate, they ought to be with George. One night, after George went to bed, Lynne Cheney, Condi Rice, Karen Hughes and I went to Chippendales. I wouldn't even mention it except [Supreme Court Justices] Ruth Ginsberg and Sandra Day O'Connor saw us there. I won't tell you what happened, but Lynne's Secret Service code name is now 'Dollar Bill.'"

She then added: "He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse."

She joked about her husband's proclivity to spend his vacation days at their Texas ranch clearing brush: "Or, as the girls call it, the Texas chainsaw massacre. George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chainsaw -- which I think is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well."

"In this age of mass communication, why do we need to take the time and money to move people across borders to increase understanding? The first and most obvious answer is that communication - visual and verbal - has passed through the filter of the producer. Seeing and hearing through the eyes and ears of another is learning one point of view. It is the difference between looking through a keyhole and walking through an open door for the whole view."

Harriet Mayor Fulbright, http://www.hmfulbright.com/

One of our readers wants to share this quote by the Canadian Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988):

“America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.”