Joe Cerami:  

Joe is from Brooklyn, New York. Joe's schools include Brooklyn Technical High School. Joe later attended West Point. Music Joe likes includes Michael Feinstein, Huey Lewis and the News, Jerry Jeff Walker. Books Joe likes include Seashell Prisoners, George Washington on Leadership, William Kennedy. Movies Joe likes include Lincoln, Coriolanus (2010), Dumb and Dumber (Official). TV shows Joe likes include msnbc, Prime Minister's Questions, Washington Journal. One of Joe's favorite quotes is:""God is glorified by our remaining in our vocation. Take care you do not fall out of the path of duty by leaving your calling, and take care you do not dishonor your profession while in it: think not much of yourselves, but do not think too little of your callings." Charles H. Spurgeon, 1869 “Leaders cannot create the context in which they operate. Their distinctive contribution consists in operating at the limit of what the given situation permits. If the exceed these limits, they crash; if they fall short of what is necessary, their policies stagnate. If they build soundly, they may create a new set of relationships that sustains itself over a historical period because all parties consider it in their own interest." Kissinger, On China (2011), p. 215 'So Cuomo repeated for Clinton — who, you can only imagine, must have been fairly exasperated by that point — one of his favorite proverbs, about an Arab traveler who comes upon a sparrow in the desert, lying on its back with its claws outstretched toward the sky. The Arab asks what the bird is doing, and the bird replies that he has heard the sky is about to fall, and he wants to be ready to hold it up. “You foolish creature,” says the Arab, laughing. To which the bird replies, with resignation, “One does what one can.”' - Matt Bai, "Mario Cuomo Still Believes," New York Times Sunday Magazine, April 10, 2011 "Overwhelming imbalances in wealth and income inevitably result in enormous imbalances of political power. So the corporations and the very wealthy continue to do well. The employment crisis never gets addressed. The wars never end. And nation-building never gets a foothold here at home. New ideas and new leadership have seldom been more urgently needed." Bob Herbert "Holbrooke devoted his life to public service, a notion that is now derided in many quarters. Some say his death marks the end of a Kennedy-­inspired generation — and an America — that believed it could be a virtuous force in the world. I fervently disagree. All of us have the chance to follow his example." David Rohde “I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.” Patti Smith "Caesar made plenty of mistakes, both as commander and as politician.... His great knack was to recover form setbacks, admit, at least to himself, that he had been wrong, and then adapt to the new situation and somehow win in the long run." Adrian Goldsworthy, in CAESAR. 'The great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that "Convictions are greater enemies of the truth than lies." ... People enter into these convictions, these assumptions, these beliefs, that so lead them astray, and they are not open to being educated or informed or to thinking outside the box, in different ways that might lead them toward a wiser judgment.' Robert Dallek 'Paterno is a political conservative and a personal friend of former Pre...Expand for more