Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. |
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. |
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall. |
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. |
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. TalkIng too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.... The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. |
We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity; everything gets only fifteen minutes. |