Realism has always been called cynicism.
By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success
There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.