Ernie Fletcher Quotes
I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.
Fletcher, Ernie. Press Conference on Special Grand Jury Settlement. 24 Aug. 2006, Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, KY. Address.
The presidents had announced that they would resume diplomatic relations and allow trade, tourism, and other exchange after 40 years of U. S. policy boycotting Cuba to produce more democratic reform and regime change. Fidel Castro, however, became the longest serving ruler or leader of any country in the world, and despite (some argue because of) the boycott was also one of the most popular leaders. The boycott was based on faulty intelligence and after 40 years of no results, President Obama's administration reversed the historical policy that had not been working though there were some American Castro haters who objected to the change arguing that with more time and the death of Fidel Castro who was ill at the time, the boycott would be effective and then we could negotiate for something in exchange for lifting the boycott.
The past history of Europe had developed so much hate and enmity among the different nations that they were all loaded down with the past and to move forward he argued that the past must be forgotten. However it was not, and Germany most of all harbored resentments which erupted a decade later with Hitler, the Nazis and WWII.
Ernest Lee Fletcher is an American physician and politician. In 1998, he was elected to the first of three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives; he resigned in 2003 after being elected the 60th governor of Kentucky and served until 2007. Prior to his entry into politics, Fletcher was a family practice physician and a Baptist lay minister. He is the second physician to be elected Governor of Kentucky; the first was Luke P. Blackburn in 1879. He is a member of the Republican Party.
