An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Politics is motion." John Sears

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

Now even reformers needed political machines.

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.

Do what you are doing. Monastic motto

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

The present will not long endure.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

Taste is so much more important than fashion.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person.