re: #325 jaunte

“In a democracy, I realize that you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people. But in a democracy like Israel, there is a wide range of opinions and that counterbalances the disappointment that I have in not meeting with the people shaping Israeli power now in the government.”
— Jimmy Carter

I remember when Jimmy was President and there was a photoin the paper, probably after Camp David Accords, with Carter, Begin, and Sadat. We were looking at this picture in the plant control room and the most red neck, old timer operator around, looked at the picture with troll-like Begin, and goofy looking Carter and said, “lookin at those boys, one sure wishes Sadat was our President.”