who said this? hint...he's running for prez.

[bearfartinthewoods]

"American leadership is about more than our ability to dominate
others. It is about convincing others that our power serves their
interests as well as our own. We inspire others to stand with us
when we show that we are willing to stand with them, to listen to
them, to take their views and contributions into account instead of
taking them for granted. Too often, this administration seems to
confuse leadership with going it alone and engagement with the
compromise of principle -but real leadership is about setting
principles and rallying others around them."


***
"Our greatest challenges require the active commitment of our
friends, allies, partners, and in fact, the world. Unilateral action
will not win the war against terrorism. It will not stop the spread
of weapons of mass destruction. It will not produce thriving new
democracies from the wreckage of failed or crushed totalitarian
regimes. And it certainly won't protect the global environment, win
the fight against global HIV/ AIDS, or address the scourge of deep
poverty around the world."


***
"This doesn't mean we will never have differences with our friends
and allies. We will. But what's important is how we resolve those
differences or agree not to. We should always stick to our
principles, do our very best to bring others to our way of thinking,
and remain committed to resolving disputes in a respectful way.
Picking up and walking away is not an exercise of leadership it
is an abdication of it. A leader who has to go it alone is no longer
leading anybody."

[mikehiggins]

1. I'll play. Kerry? eom

[bearfartinthewoods]

2. and this

"Today, somebody who has worked his whole life to save for
his son's college has to pay taxes at more than twice the rate
of his boss. Where I come from, that man's hard work means
at least as much to the future of the country not half as
much as his boss. Mr. President, I challenge you. Explain
why you think a multimillionaire should pay 15 percent on
his next million on stock profits, while a fireman has to pay
over 30 percent for each extra dollar of overtime. Mr.
President, explain how you square that with America's
values."

***

"Our economy, our people, and our nation have been undermined
by the crony capitalists who believe that success is all about
working the angles, working the phones, and rigging the game,
instead of hard work, innovation and frugality."

"And these manipulators find comfort in an administration which,
through its own example, seems to embrace that ethic."


***

"My ideas are based on principles as old as America. Corporate
books should be honest. Rewards should be based on
accomplishment. Executives and other insiders should be
accountable. And businesses have responsibilities to their workers,
not just the other way around."

[maddezmom]

3. John Edwards?

[bearfartinthewoods]

15. bingo!

[HFishbine]

17. See

That wasn't so hard now, was it?

[Nadienne]

18. I could practically hear his

delightful southern accent...

[JI7]

4. Senator John Edwards

of course.

[bearfartinthewoods]

5. and this..

"We need to make sure corporate directors and executives
are accountable to the shareholders they work for.
Corporate boards are supposed to represent shareholders,
not management."

"It is a disgrace when executives walk off with huge pensions
after running their companies into the ground. We need to
bring back a basic principle of our pension laws: pensions
should be protected on the shop floor, not just the top floor."

"It is a disgrace that American companies renounce their
citizenship to reduce their taxes. It is a disgrace that
corporations can take out life insurance policies on their
janitors, claim a huge tax deduction, and then keep the
proceeds when that employee dies, rather than sharing them
with his family. Our tax code is riddled with such loopholes,
which waste our money and offend our values. This president
has had several opportunities to close these very loopholes
and he hasn't. I will."

[flpoljunkie]

19. Great Edwards line!

"We need to bring back a basic principle of our pension laws: pensions
should be protected on the shop floor, not just the top floor." -John Edwards

[Racenut20]

6. My guess is Shrub when he was pretending to be compassionate conservative

[bearfartinthewoods]

9. wow.....it does doesn't it....and it got him elected, didn't it?

but this guy is a dem with with a 94% rating from the NAACP

[bearfartinthewoods]

7. more.....on domestic security

"Today, we have the worst of all worlds: an FBI that has
done a poor job of identifying and stopping terrorists within
the U. S., led by an Attorney General who is doing an even
worse job of protecting our civil liberties. We can do
better."

"September 11 th awakened us to the massive damage
terrorists could cause with airplanes, and we've taken good
measures to harden airline security. Unfortunately, we have
a dangerous pattern of closing the barn door after the
terrorists have attacked. It's time to get ahead of them. We
know they want to cause the most death, destruction,
economic disruption, and fear they can. And so while we can
never predict just what terrorists will do, we have a pretty
good sense about other likely targets. We need to harden
those targets."

"The administration may think domestic defense is about
changing the color code from yellow to orange. Let me tell
you something: the colors that will make America safer are
firefighter red, EMT white, and police officer blue."

[CoffeePlease2004]

8. To be honest, it sounds like Lieberman. I recall him saying that line. .

"Too often, this administration seems to
confuse leadership with going it alone and engagement with the
compromise of principle -but real leadership is about setting
principles and rallying others around them.'"

I think Lieberman speaks good words. It is just his delevery that puts you to sleep. It would also help if he voted along with it too.

So did I win or lose a prize. LOL

Mike

[Kathleen04]

10. I don't think so..

Think southern drawl, not somnambulant drone.

[bearfartinthewoods]

11. no prize for you

this guy isn't short or "funny-looking" and he won't put you to sleep.

[retyred]

13. Elmer Fudd?

or the real life equivelent.....You decide



retyred in fla
“good night Paul, wherever you are”
So I read this book

[bearfartinthewoods]

12. and more from the man who can beat bush

http://access.adobe.com/perl/convertPDF.pl


the formatting sort of sucks because it's converted from a pdf that you can download from

http://www.johnedwards2004.com/real-solutions.asp

[izzie]

14. I would love to see those maps put up with education and income

and the so called people who use their Bibles to do awful things to people.

[LWolf]

16. Edwards.

And here's just a snip from another:

"We begin today to renew this country, to bring this country back towards an upward path. The future of humanity can be secure, because we stand for democratic values. Because we stand for peace and because we stand for social and economic justice. Because we care enough to challenge our government in a moment of crisis to set our government back on the right path."