Thought Quotient

It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be grounded down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”
-Pope John Paul II

Over fifty million people decided they wanted four more years of George W.
In the spirit of post Election blog posts, I now present

Quotes from either the President of the United States OR Senator Palpatine from the Star Wars Movies

BY JASON MCGREGOR
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1. “Your friends have failed!”

2. “As a matter of common sense and self-defense, [we] will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed.”

3. “If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the [Republic or U.S.], has developed that capability, harbors those aspirations, then I think the [Republic or U.S.] is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.”

4. “The [Republic or Nation] is not what it once was - the Senate is full of greedy - squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good.”

5. “That will be part of the resolution, authorization of use of force. If you want to keep the peace, you’ve got to have the authorization to use force.”

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