Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.
Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?
If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.
Respect People, Inspect Ideas.
One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.
Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.
Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it