At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.