The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “We are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. … Let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope. We have every right to dream heroic dreams.”

Delusional: “Our values are about supporting America’s working families, about honoring the vows of our Founders, about honoring the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, honoring the aspirations of our children. That is why we vote so much alike because we have shared values.” —Nancy Pelosi

Pleasant thoughts: “I remember 2006. What happened is that George W. Bush — he put us in two disastrous wars and we were headed toward the biggest financial disaster since the Great Depression. So if the answer is that we need those three things to happen for a course correction, I’d prefer to move a little quicker. How about that? But I take your point. Maybe we can have, like, a nuclear war and then we get a real course correction.” —billionaire socialist Tom Steyer on getting rid of Donald Trump

Regrets: “I’ll be honest with you, if I have a regret during my presidency, it is that people were so focused on me and the battles we were having — particularly after we lost the House — that folks stopped paying attention up and down the ballot.” —Barack Obama

Warnings: “My colleagues on both sides of the aisle know that this vote [on a Supreme Court nominee] could be one of the key votes of their entire career. If [Democrats] vote for somebody who’s going to change precedent, it could be a career-ending move.” —Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)

And last… “An originalist court stands for a simple proposition: The Founders created an ingenious system of government. We should give it another try.” —David French