He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.