Old Fogey's Quotes for Thursday

"The danger is that Mr. Bush will hand over a White House to a successor that will face a far messier world, with far fewer resources left to cope with it."
Richard N. Haass, a former senior Bush administration official who heads the Council on Foreign Relations
Analysis: Bush's World of Crises

"Lieberman's already demonstrated he'll kiss a Republican while wearing the Democrats' ring. Why wouldn't he go all the way, especially if the Dems take the ring back?"
RJ Eskow , on the Huffington Post
EXTRA! Lieberman Declares War

"The United States is a paper tiger. Kim Jong Il knows very well that Bush isn't going to do anything to punish him."
Song Yong-sun, a military expert who serves in South Korea's National Assembly
A Level Reply to N. Korea Missiles

"Terrorism is an extreme form of political communication. You want to be sure that, in your response, you don't end up amplifying the messages that terrorists are trying to convey."
James Fallows, blogging for the Atlantic from this year's Aspen Ideas Festival
James Fallows

"Yet, the lesson is clear: Independent nations don't go along easily with notions of 'democracy and political freedom' as defined by another country and forced down their throats by the very undemocratic method of foreign intervention."
Albor Ruiz, a columnist for the New York Daily News.
Froomkin on Bush's Foreign Legacy

"Superman has changed with the times before. During the New Deal era, he was a 'champion of the oppressed.' What is disturbing is that 'the American way' now seems to have become code for arrogant unilateralism that falls somewhere outside truth, justice and all that is good."
Jonah Goldberg, in a LATimes editorial on the new Superman movie that deletes the Preservation of the 'American Way" from what Superman represents
Jonah Goldberg: Superman vs. the Lone Ranger