The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.