CNN Commentary: Is Obama skidding or crashing?
by Penn Jillette
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." Winston Churchill
"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Samuel Johnson
"He chewed more than he bit off." Ernest Hemingway, on Henry James
"Progress, not perfection." Stuart Smalley
"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." Abraham Lincoln
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. " Samuel Johnson
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain
"Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding." Jonathan Swift
"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." Abraham Lincoln
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." Confucius
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." Winston Churchill
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love. It is the prerogative of the brave." Mohandas Gandhi
"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." Otto von Bismarck
"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." C.S. Lewis
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one." Benjamin Franklin
"On the day of judgment, we will not be asked what we have read, but what we have done." Thomas a Kempis
"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections . . . have patience in all things, but first of all, yourself." St. Francis de Sales
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts." Edmund Burke
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