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

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

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.