With the inauguration of Donald Trump just a day away, there is lots of talk on TV of a New World Order. My sincere prayer is that the Universe will turn his “gift of gaffe” into something that the world’s citizenry find itself easy to follow and understand. Words do matter and may this New World Order include words that matter. Other US leaders expressed themselves eloquently on the world stage and we expect no less of this new Commander-in-Chief. “I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words,” he said at a rally last December. Below are words that matter spoken by previous US Presidents and some of Donald’s own.
“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.” – Lyndon B. Johnson, Inaugural Address, Jan 20,1965
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” Donald Trump
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
“Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it’s getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.” Donald Trump
“May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country’s peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.” – James Polk (1845-1849
“Owning a great golf course gives you great power.” Donald Trump
“Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.” – James Garfield (1881 – assassinated later that year)
I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I’ve made a lot of money dealing against many other countries. Donald Trump
“Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.” – William Taft (1909-1913)
“Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault” — Donald Trump on Twitter
“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met — obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” – John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” DonaldTrump
“It is not strange . . . to mistake change for progress.” – Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s, like, incredible.” Donald Trump
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” – James Earl Carter, Jr. (1977–1981)
“I’ve become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.” Donald Trump
“A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963–1969)
“The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.” Donald Trump
“Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also. . .” – William McKinley (1896-1901).
“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.” – Donald Trump
With the inauguration tomorrow, the story unfolds. We can only wish him well and hope that this will be a good story.