Remember the children’s game Simon Says? “Simon says touch your nose”, and you have to touch your nose. Then “Stand on one foot” but because somebody doesn’t first say “Simon Says” -you’re out.
I hated that game. It’s a favorite game of kids who grow up to be bureaucrats. No matter how hard I tried to please, I never got to be Simon.
I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. People projected around me.
Quotation from Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
I promise you, we as a people will get there… Yes we can.
Quotation from Barack Obama, America’s next President