WE HAVE ARRIVED!

 

Inauguration 2005

"As democracy is perfected, the office [of the President] represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal.

"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by — a downright moron."

— Henry Louis Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1920