We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable โ the art of the next best
The luxury of one's own opinion.