... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.