I Was Spent Up. I Sure Grabbed

Ambition Is A Commendable Attribute, Without Which No Man Succeeds. Only Inconsiderate Ambition Imperils.

My Once-keen Analytical Mind Has Become So Dulled By Endless Hours Of Baking In The Hot Sun, Thrashing About In Tight Chimneys, Pulling At Impossibly Heavy Loads, Freezing My Ass Off.... So That Now My Mental State Is Comparable To That Of A Peruvian Indian, Well Stoked On Coca Leaves.

In The Experiences Of A Year Of The Presidency, There Has Come To Me No Other Such Unwelcome Impression As The Manifest Religious Intolerance Which Exists Among Many Of Our Citizens. I Hold It To Be A Menace To The Very Liberties We Boast And Cherish.

Actually, We're Just Glorified Flagpole Sitters.

Practically All We Know Is That Thousands Of Native Haitians Have Been Killed By American Marines, And That Many Of Our Own Gallant Men Have Sacrificed Their Lives At The Behest Of An Executive Department In Order To Establish Laws Drafted By The Assistant Secretary Of The Navy. ... I Will Not Empower An Assistant Secretary Of The Navy To Draft A Constitution For Helpless Neighbors In The West Indies And Jam It Down Their Throats At The Point Of Bayonets Borne By U.s. Marines.