Donald Trump Quotes
We will build a great wall. We are going to drain the swamp.
Trump, Donald. Remarks at a Campaign Rally. C-SPAN, 2016.
Senator Frank Church had explained his opposition to the President's Vietnam policy by showing him an article by the well known columnist Walter Lippmann.
Trump often used the phrase "Drain the swamp" in his campaigning to mean get ride of the establishment figures who had, for the most part, dominated politics, for decades. When he was elected, he had to appoint a cabinet, but when he did so, it was almost exclusivly made up of people who had been a part of the political and corporate establishment -- the swamp.
The first non-PRI President in over 70 years. Before Fox, the corruption of Mexican Presidents was rampant.
John Purroy Mitchell, 1879–1918, was an abject failure as a mayor. He only lasted one term and almost had a popular revolution against him. He had no ability to connect with the average voter and cared little for any but the upper classes, many of whom lived on 5th Avenue. 1st Avenue in contrast was full of overcrowded slums and the poorest people in the city. His repugnance for common people was ironic because he was the grandson of the great Irish nationalist, John Mitchel, 1815-1874, Irish Journalist & Founder of United Irishman and Founder of The Irish Confederation. He was one of the great heroes of the common people who was jailed in Australia by the English. He escaped and came to New York City.
Although Madison vetoed the Federal bill to improve the national infrastructure, he was very much for the improvements and he said so in this veto message. He, however, did not see the Constitutional authority for the Federal government to appropriate moneys to be spent in the States for infrastructure improvement. He was for a Constitutional Amendment to do so or to make the improvements using State money as New York did building the Erie Canal. Alexander Hamilton, and many of the Congressmen who voted for the bill disagreed (many of whom were also in the Constitutional Convention) and did not see the Constitutional limitation that Madison did. See Hamilton’s Quote 644278. He was particularly concerned that small and less affluent states could not possibly have the skill to design these or the finances to build them. Later President’s and Congresses sided with Hamilton. It would be hard to envision America today of Madison’s view had prevailed.
James Madison agreed on the importance of infrastructure but disagreed that the Congress had to Constitutional authority to spend federal money for an improvement in a state. See Quote 644277.
Donald John Trump is an American media personality and businessman who served as the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
