Every year at this time, I get the rare privilege and honor of sitting down with our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, and asking him about some of the more important local issues of the day. Even in the new century, the words Lincoln spoke so long ago make more sense than most we hear now about the issues we face today. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
Many public officials say they are doing the best they can, yet some people never seem satisfied.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation because she never cackles until after the egg has been laid. Changing subjects sir, both the Temecula and Murrieta city councils seem to having major disagreements. A house divided against itself cannot stand.