One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
William SafireYou don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.
William SafireA reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.
William SafireThe perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichรฉs know, is a scoreless tie.
William Safire