One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
Barbara TuchmanGovernment remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.
Barbara TuchmanWe seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.
Barbara TuchmanPolicy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.
Barbara Tuchman