That dutch saying and subsequent question says it all. And now political leaders are falling over themselves to heap praise on him-big deal.  Might have been better to listen to what he was saying at the time.

And I can't even begin to imagine and politicians here in the US making a speech like that even now-except for maybe one or two.

I also don't know if he is even being mentioned in US news here-then again most Americans barely know who the governor of their state is much less who anyone outside the US happens to be.

I remember reading his speech at the time and even now it is so incredibly to the point and clear headed amidst so much propaganda being spewed during that time that I believe this speech will become a true visionary speech to be quoted over the coming years.

Or maybe more simply put the guy had brains and balls and the courage of his convictions.

"People never do evil so throughly and happily as when they do it from moral conviction."-Blaise Pascal