Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
Ronald Reagan


No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain,
for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That
means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion. --Albert Einstein

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
Clint Eastwood