If we could, at this time, shrink the Earth's population to a village    
of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the
same, it would look like this:
 
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere
(North and South) and 8 Africans.
 
70 would be nonwhite; 30 white.
 
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
 
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people.
All 6 would be citizens of the United States.
 
70 would be unable to read.
 
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
 
80 would live in substandard housing.
 
Only 1 would have a college education.
 
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed
perspective, the need for understanding becomes glaringly apparent.


  

                            Unknown Source

Chief Crazy Horse

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"My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes, too".

Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear

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"The president believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one". Presidential spokeman Ari Fleischer, saying that the country should addrss the energy crisis through supply, not demand.
Source: Newsweek, May 21, 2001

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2001 - Luckovich-Atlanta Constitution

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"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican."

George W., on not taking questions at a photo opportunity with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Source: Newsweek April 30, 2001

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"He doesn't make that many."

First Lady Laura Bush asked on "Larry King Live" if she gets annoyed with her husband's errors in grammar.
Source: Newsweek, April 30, 2001

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2001 - Luckovich-Atlanta Constitution

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"Republican minorities are not going to sound like Jesse Jackson."

GOP strategist Allan Hoffenblum, on the policy priorities of the minorities Bush has named to his cabinet.
Source: Newsweek January 15, 2001

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"If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good." Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, defending the Bush energy plan and its proposed expansion of nuclear power.
Newsweek, June 4, 2001

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"To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say to you: you, too, can be president of the United States."

George W., receiving an honorary degree from Yale, his alma mater.
Newsweek, June 4, 2001

(But, what does that say about us?)

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2000 - Peters - Dayton Daily News

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Gore won by 540,520 votes. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

By the way, after numerous counts by various media sources, the Florida counts are still too close to call. Ironic that the election was decided upon 1) by The Supreme Court, and 2) a state where the "final" tally still does not indicate a clear winner.

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Interesting:

Before the World Trade Center attack:

50% of Americans polled approved of Bush

After the World Trade Center attack:

A near-record 86 percent approve of the job Bush is doing, the fourth-highest presidential approval measure ever;
91 percent approve of his handling of the current crisis.

Only Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, received higher job-approval ratings --

- - all during times of war.

Update August 1st, 2003:

More and more Americans believe Bush mislead the public regarding Iraq and their reported stash of WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), and many are beginning to question the wisdom of attacking Iraq in the first place. Plus, Bush's overall job performance rating is slipping, as well.

Perhaps. But I'm still waiting for the Democrats (or anybody!) to stop cowering in a corner and come out swinging - alas, a long wait is in store, I suspect.

But, what now, in Iraq? Saudi Arabia? And?