NP: the root of, maybe, everything

[Otto]

Is it an actual proverb?

Otto

2006/11/5, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>:
> The rats abandon a sinking ship?
>
> Bekah
>
> At 6:10 AM +0100 11/5/06, Otto wrote:
> >That's all a load of bullshit!
> >
> >Why not blaming the Germans for not going along!
> >
> >Those neocons make me sick!
> >
> >Is there an equivalent in English for the saying: "Die Ratten
> >verlassen das sinkende Schiff"?
> >
> >Otto
> >
> >2006/11/5, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> >>"I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the
> >>president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself
> >>committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock
> >>to me has been that although the president said the words, he just
> >>did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe,
> >>everything."
> >>
> >>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-frum/vanity-fairs-inve_b_33251.html
>
>