Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

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.

[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.

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.