I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

A deck of cards was built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it and a lackey to those above it.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We have it in ourselves to do what we are meant to do.

The strategy is a living ever-evolving pivoting mechanism.

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.'

All our, let's say, incomes are really very well, transparent to those organs who need these information and who are in charge of combating corruption in our country.

You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.