Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.