Quote of the Day for 2015-12-26

"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."

— Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) Speech at the Southern Commercial Congress in Mobile, Alabama, October 27, 1913

People on line around a spontaneous memorial of snow covered flowers and candles in front of the French embassy in Moscow, waiting to sign books of condolences to the French people (November 15, 2015 — Photograph by Stolbovsky)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-20

"But what experience and historians teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on the principles deduced from it."

— Georg Hegel (1770-1831) Lectures on the Philosophy of History, "Introduction"

George W. Bush and his inner circle, photographed in the Cabinet Room of the White House in December 2001. From left: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, the president, National-Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, C.I.A. director George Tenet (seated), and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld., Photograph by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair.