Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
Norton, Eleanor Holmes. Quoted in The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, compiled by Rosalie Maggio, Beacon Press, 1996, p. 320.
This old proverb, commonly uttered in Russia and Slavic countries, in part, explains why Russians, Serbs, and others of the area seem so mired in the past.
When politicians make bad decisions or choose bad alternatives, there is usually a price which involves use of tax money and sometimes the sacrifice of life itself. In the case to which McCain was referring, the George W. Bush Administration had gone to war against Iraq for reasons that turned out not to be true, and then after a military victory with few casualties, botched the occupation of the country and a vicious insurgency developed bogging down the nation in its longest war in history. The major burden fell on the armed forces and their families while all Americans endured the highest financial deficits in the nation’s history.
Eleanor Holmes Norton is an American politician serving as a Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
