To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.