Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.
By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.
Let's cause some senators distress.
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.