I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.

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

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.