Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?