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

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

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

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.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

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