I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life’s incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.
Stalin’s henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.
The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy.
Remember Henry Adam’s jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.
Baseball’s rich in wonderful statistics, but it’s hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial’s hitting record. He didn’t care where he was, he just hit.
No matter how deeply you distrust the government’s judgment, you are too trusting.
Even the continents drift.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Freedom is the silence of the law.
The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.
It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
The cultivation – even celebration – of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today’s culture of complaint.
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things – courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.
It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country – and indeed the world – has yet seen.
Sports is the toy department of life.
Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate. ” No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.