crusade quotes

All Presidents start out pretending to run a crusade, but after a couple of years they find they are running something much less heroic, much more intractable: namely, the Presidency.

- (Alfred) Alistair Cooke
  In The Listener.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade, or it is nothing.

- (James) Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx
  Scottish Labour Party conference, 5 Sep.