A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

All power corrupts but some must govern.