Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.