I read this inspirational quote tonight over sushi and sake in a very chic liberal East Coast city, and I smiled.
When Reagan and his team had been in Sacramento six years, they began to realize that some of the staff were saying “we,” referring to the government. They figured those guys had been there too long. Because when Reagan said “we,” it always meant the American people and never the government, neither when he was governor, nor when he was President. Conservatives have to distinguish between running the government on behalf of the American people, and presiding over the government to the American people.
–Newt Gingrich, in reference to the Craig Shirley book Reagan’s Revolution, and as quoted by Rush Limbaugh in The Limbaugh Letter, July 2005
Cross-posted at TMH’s Bacon Bits
Good book. I’ve actually just started reading it.