Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.