That last line was probably the biggest one-liner takeaway of the convention thus far...

[SteppingRazor]

"People have always been more impressed with the power of our example than the example of our power."

That line wil be reiterated everywhere when this speech is over, that clip will be played on all the cable news channels tomorrow, and that quote will run in papers across the country.

[maddezmom]

1. will you blog about it?

:hi:

[SteppingRazor]

2. Maybe.

I never know what I'm gonna write exactly till I write it. :)

[Awsi Dooger]

3. That will become a famous line

Maybe not in mainstream but by historians and speech analysts

[elkston]

4. Agree. That's the line I'm going to remember from this speech. n/t

[Glimmer of Hope]

5. That is nice!!

[Catherine Vincent]

6. That's an awesome quote.

Big Dawg rocks!

[DeepModem Mom]

7. ...

[knixphan]

8. HELL YES.

THAT is the line.

[many a good man]

9. Is that an original quote?

It sounds so good it ought to be famous.

[SteppingRazor]

10. I didn't get it quite right:

"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power" is the exact quote, I believe.

That said, yeah, I think it's an original.

[FatDave]

11. I think it will be. (nt)

[Jakes Progress]

15. First I find it was a speech

he gave on the deck of the USS Intrepid back in 1996. Others have used it since.

[BigBearJohn]

12. I couldn't agree more. When I heard it, I nearly fell off my chair.

I instantly started crying.

[Jakes Progress]

13. The conservative ass on PBS

said it was weak because Putin and Ahmadinejad wouldn't be impressed with our example. Then they moved on before someone could remind him that if we had been setting a good example instead of chest thumping those two men would never have come to power. It is the power of our trying to set a good example that has impressed the people of the world, not the leaders, that has until bush been our best export.

[Patiod]

14. Great line!

And TRUE

[blue_onyx]

16. one of my favorites lines too :)

[Bozita]

17. It impressed me last night. I knew there'd be a thread here at DU.

The Big Dawg really stopped me in my tracks with that one.