[Luis Gonzalez]

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything. "I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'

"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life

[Constitution Day]

Excellent quote. Thanks for posting it.

[Reagan Man]

Thanks for posting that Luis. I wish Ronald Reagan was still able to speak out with his great wisdom and get people thinking once again. Guess we'll have to settle for his spoken word of record.

Some people, some conservatives, need to wake up and take off their blinders. They obviously don't realize how much of the real world they're missing.

In politics, getting your way 75% of the time, means your agenda is on the winning side most of the time and your opponent is on the losing side 75% of the time. This is real simple stuff. LOL

[arasina]

Luis, I think I love you. :-) Actually, I love how you come up with the perfect reply nearly 100 percent of the time. Are you an attorney? Could we get you nominated to the Supreme Court perhaps?