The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.