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
Robert HarrisBy dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
Robert HarrisPolitics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
Robert Harris