Lincoln quotation by Nancy Pelosi

[David Lockmiller]

Nancy Pelosi gave a nice little political speech at the beginning of this Sunday edition of This Week With George Stephanopoulos - ABC News. She began her talk with a Lincoln quotation:

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.” (Debate at Ottawa, August 21, 1858)

[LincolnMan]

Well, she got the quote right. It is a Lincoln quote. I don’t know the context she used it for.

[David Lockmiller]

(11-28-2022 08:24 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Well, she got the quote right. It is a Lincoln quote. I don’t know the context she used it for.

Transcript of Pelosi Interview on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos
NOVEMBER 13, 2022

George Stephanopoulos. What steps do Democrats need to take to bring the country together?

Speaker Pelosi. Well, we have always been taking that step because we honor our oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and that should be a unifying principle for us.

The – when, many of our bills, we worked very hard to make it bipartisan, bipartisan, bipartisan. And while the bills were bipartisan, the votes were not.

So again, I go back to Abraham Lincoln: ‘Public sentiment is everything. With it, you can accomplish almost anything. Without it, practically nothing.’

And the point I want to make is, when the public knows what is at stake and what's happening there, I think we'll see more cooperation, again, working together to produce a bill, but not having people vote no, take the dough, and make it look like we don't have bipartisanship, when, in fact, in the bills we do, but in the votes, not necessarily. Let the public know.

[AussieMick]

(11-28-2022 09:00 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  

(11-28-2022 08:24 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Well, she got the quote right. It is a Lincoln quote. I don’t know the context she used it for.

Transcript of Pelosi Interview on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos
NOVEMBER 13, 2022

George Stephanopoulos. What steps do Democrats need to take to bring the country together?

Speaker Pelosi. Well, we have always been taking that step because we honor our oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and that should be a unifying principle for us.

The – when, many of our bills, we worked very hard to make it bipartisan, bipartisan, bipartisan. And while the bills were bipartisan, the votes were not.

So again, I go back to Abraham Lincoln: ‘Public sentiment is everything. With it, you can accomplish almost anything. Without it, practically nothing.’

And the point I want to make is, when the public knows what is at stake and what's happening there, I think we'll see more cooperation, again, working together to produce a bill, but not having people vote no, take the dough, and make it look like we don't have bipartisanship, when, in fact, in the bills we do, but in the votes, not necessarily. Let the public know.

I always feel uncomfortable when politicians talk of bipartisanship. It seems (often, anyway) to be contrary to democratic values.

Anyway, another Lincoln quote ...

"Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came …. Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.”

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

I guess Lincoln could have been more bipartisan towards the South (and to some of his colleagues in the North). But then he wouldnt have achieved what he did (IMO).

[LincolnMan]

Thank you for supplying the context. It was enlightening.

[David Lockmiller]

(11-29-2022 10:41 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Thank you for supplying the context. It was enlightening.

I thought that you would appreciate it, Bill.

As regards Nancy Pelosi, she can be very wrong at times and not admit it. In that respect she is not different than the Republicans.

I had a somewhat personal experience in that regard. I went to a public meeting which she held at a school near where I lived at a time when a particular issue was of nationwide concern. A number of people in the audience shared my opinion. Nancy Pelosi came on stage and stated her immutable opinion at the outset. She then listened to the many stated opinions very similar to my own. And that was the end of that.

She was the only one in this public meeting with the right to vote on the issue in Congress. I have not voted for her since that time.

The issue remains the same (and now much worse) and her position on the issue remains the same.