These were the words, not of a polemicist, a left-wing or liberal politician eagerly running for office.
In parallel came other small signs of the old polemicist reasserting himself over "Mike the polite" – such as tweeted slights on the Observer's political editor, Toby Helm, which came from a seemingly official @ToryEducation account.
Who is ready to live the moment?" Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and polemicist, told the press: "He is so authentic, so expressive.
Edward Goldsmith, who has died aged 80, was an influential environmental scholar, polemicist and campaigner who founded and edited the Ecologist.
And what might that be?" Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post speculates that Mr Giuliani is channeling the ideas of Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative polemicist who insists that Mr Obama, animated by his Kenyan father's anti-colonial politics, sees America as a malign neocolonial power.
Allan Bloom, a conservative American philosopher and polemicist, grumbled that "rock has the beat of sexual intercourse"—a charge levelled against the tango in the early 20th century, the waltz in the 19th and the sarabande in the 16th.Mr Gioia fares less well on modern territory.
ON ONE side is Britain's best-known atheist polemicist, in unlikely alliance with his media-savvy local bishop.
On hearing her routine, Christopher Hitchens, a polemicist, remarked that "when comedians flatter the president, they become court jesters, and the country becomes a banana republic .Mr Obama himself can be pretty amusing.
Even Mr Laughland, the Eurosceptic polemicist, notes in a fit of fairness that "drawing attention to the detail of Nazi propaganda about Europe is not to imply that modern pro-Europeans are fascists.
Another time, to annoy what he regarded as the all-too-earnest People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, he broadcast the death of a steer, and then donated its meat to the homeless.An altogether less agreeable polemicist is Michael Savage, whose latest book is called "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder".
The people who teach and research the discipline mocked by Thomas Carlyle, a 19th-century polemicist, as "the dismal science", not only failed to spot the precipice, many forecast exactly the opposite a tranquil stability they called the "great moderation".
