If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.