Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.