Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.

Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

I'm more depressed about the realities of the mature bureaucracy and more excited about the ideal that we're fighting for. And the juxtaposition has obvious consequences. Rolf Mowatt-Larrsen

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

I was the world's ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.