Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

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.

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.