Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.


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ALEXANDER POPE
The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE
And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE
Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE
We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
LAMAR ALEXANDER
If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
LAMAR ALEXANDER
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to beg...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and mor...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, tha...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting mone...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
LAMAR ALEXANDER
When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and th...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've buil...
LAMAR ALEXANDER
Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
LAMAR ALEXANDER
Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected f...
LAMAR ALEXANDER