Yogi Berra Quotes
We're lost, but we're making good time.
This quotation has been cited by politicians when they were trying to criticize the direction and aims of current policies.
Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, Baseball Player and Manager, Remark to his wife, while driving to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, Quoted in The Christian Science Monitor On Line, May 19, 2012, http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2012/0511/Yogi-Berra-21-quotes-for-his-birthday/
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In 1869 the all male legislature of Wyoming at the urging of legislator Col. William Bright passed legislation allowing women not only to vote but to hold public office. A local Justice of the Peace was so outraged that he resigned in protest. Then Esther Morris ran for the vacated position and won becoming the first woman to hold public office. See {585019} & {585018}
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra was an American professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1946–1963, 1965), all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player—more than any other player in MLB history. Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only six players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.