The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.