Dueling Quotations

�When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.� -- Donald Rumsfeld

"I don't fall down!" -- John F. Kerry

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"Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.' � -- Robert Hutchins (In Rumsfeld's Rules, first link)

"I believe the Bush administration in the first eight months considered terrorism an important issue, but not an urgent issue," -- Richard Clarke

"Accidentally like a martyr,
The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder.

The days slide by
Should have done, should have done, we all sigh." -- Warren Zevon

"[Richard Clarke] becomes not just a perjurer but a partisan perjurer. He savages Bush for not having made al Qaeda his top national security priority, but he refuses even to call a 'mistake' Clinton's staggering dereliction in putting Yasser Arafat and Yugoslavia(!) above fighting al Qaeda." -- Charles Krauhammer