Politics is motion." John Sears

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.

I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I'm over it. I like Hollywood better.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.