The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

Politics? 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!

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.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.