“Life is a ramifying bush with millions of branches, not a ladder.”

“The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.”

“The 2000 election of George W. Bush as president gave Republicans what the Democrats have now, total control of the legislative and executive branches of government. When Bush came to office, federal spending was $1.788 trillion. When he left office, federal spending was $2.982 trillion.”

“For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake”

“It is false to say President Bush presided over a "jobless recovery." His trade deficits have created many millions of jobs in China.”

“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”

“Now that my ladder’s gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”

“Today, the Panzer-like Bush machine controls all three branches of our federal government, the first time that has happened since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. And that makes it just about impossible to mount any kind of Congressional investigation of a firmly-entrenched president like George Bush. The time has come to get deeply into football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed.”