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.

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

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

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.