“Whoever is in the driver's seat determines whether we as a nation will crash and burn or survive and hand the keys to the next generation.”

—  Michael Savage

Source: The Enemy Within: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on Our Churches, Schools, and Military (2004), p. 2

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