How Do Our Leaders Get Things Done?

Quote of the day:
“If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.”
--Gelett Burgess

Quote of the day no. 2:
“We like so much to hear people talk of us and our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.”
--Marie de Sevigne

Quote of the day no. 3:
“I said, ‘Now is when we have a chance here, and you want to have it all perfect. It won’t happen. You’re not the majority.’ I said, ‘When does that get into your mind? You’re not the majority.’”
--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a private conversation recorded in March 2006. He was referring to his fellow Republicans in the legislature.

This quote comes from CNN. The governor also compared his experience as a child in post-World War II Austria to plans to build a fence along the Mexican border:

“We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of the wall is the enemy. Are we looking at Mexico as the enemy? No, it’s not. These are our trading partners.”