Ray Stevens Quotes
Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.
Stevens, Ray. "Osama-Yo' Mama." Osama-Yo' Mama, Curb Records, 2002.
This was his description of Israel's strongest supporting nation�s Secretary of State. His reason for this statement was the Kerry�s analysis of the motivations for Palestinian Terrorist action was different from his. However, the real importance of this quotation is that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu then selected Baratz to lead Israel�s public diplomacy efforts, the major target of which was the United States even though he had these views and worse, publicly published them. Baratz also slandered Secretary of State Kerry�{582961}. It shows that Netanyahu closed his eyes to clear lack of diplomatic skill and language because he was as limited and constrained by his world view much as most of the Palestinian terrorist fanatics were constrained by their world view and ideology. People like this often act against their own interests in order to maintain their world view, and Baratz very much shared the Prime Minister�s particular world view which is what Netanyahu wanted to promote in his nation�s public diplomacy. So he selected an ideological crony.
Responding to a letter request of a VIP that his likeness appear on a U.S. Postage stamp: Some say he thought better of his response and when he reviewed it as typed, he did not send it. The disposition is not certain.
Armstrong rarely commented on politics (see {615854}), but the Governor defying the Supreme Court and not letting his people even go to school with other students was too much for him. He not only made the statement, but he approved it for publication. This shocked many who knew him as an apolitical person. He was particularly distressed with President Eisenhower who although he had warned Faubus that he would enforce the court order and then used federal troops to do so, Eisenhower was a man of action and not rhetoric and his lack of firm public statements overlooked an opportunity to use the Presidential “bully pulpit” and exercise his moral leadership and authority. Many then, and even 50 years later, were not sure where he stood on the issue of school desegregation.
Adams liked hardly anyone. Hamilton was a fellow Federalist leader. Adams even had harsh words for George Washington. See {621581}
Even in the early days of our Republic, many people were hostile to the government that they had created, Adams, a politician with a very thin skin, was insulted by the public criticizing the government after having elected it. His concept was that the public should elect their representatives and leaders and then live with what the representatives and leaders do. He in particular came in for much public criticism and insult and even passed laws – the Alien and Sedition Acts – making it illegal to verbally attack the government.
Harold Ray Ragsdale, known professionally as Ray Stevens, is an American country and pop singer-songwriter and comedian, known for his Grammy-winning recordings "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Misty", as well as comedic hits such as "Gitarzan" and "The Streak". He has worked as a producer, music arranger, songwriter, television host, and solo artist; been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, and the Christian Music Hall of Fame; and received gold albums for his music sales.
