Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.