The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.