The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is just too much fraternizing with the enemy.