Well that makes things nice and clear
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grysarDirectly (I mean really directly) stolen from Sullivan.
"We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do,"
Rudy Giuliani, March 1994.
[Edit: Link extended to make clear that I'm linking to the speech and not some campaign site.]
"We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do,"
Rudy Giuliani, March 1994.
[Edit: Link extended to make clear that I'm linking to the speech and not some campaign site.]
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Date: 2007-03-22 04:49 pm (UTC)I'd actually say the constitution and judiciary did alright. Bush had been dealt a fair number of set backs by the courts. The real problem was that Congress completely failed to be a check. Not that there's much that can be quickly done about it, but this has shown major weaknesses of a Presidential versus a Parliamentary system.
Obviously even now the Dems are having a hard time ending the war in Iraq, but they've quickly dug into Bush on a whole range of fronts. I stand by my guess that by the end of the month we're going to have a new Attorney General. Considering the new one will have to be confirmed, there's likely going to be quite an improvement. New Sec. Def Gates is leaps and better than Rumsfeld as he showed by actually firing people during the Walter Reed Scandal.
But yeah, the 2004 election showed definite structural weaknesses in the American system. This is why I don't think this particular quote will probably hurt Guiliani all that much in the primary.