Two recent quotes for you this morning.

“I could not, would not, in good conscience go to my birth country when there is such an authoritarian bully in the White House, and when the craven Republicans in the House and the U.S. Senate are complicit in their silence.”

-- author John Irving, 83, on why he's not traveing to the U.S. to promote “Queen Esther,” his 16th novel, during an interview with The New York Times. Love the fact that he calls out Republicans. Most don't get it and just say “Congress.” 

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“[Trump] doesn't have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. He knows better, but he's an instrument of the status quo and he's making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket. ... I don't know of a greater criminal in history.”

-- actor Harrison Ford in The Guardian.

As a young man, I chose my heroes well.