Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at them.
When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.
We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.
This is the first convention of the space age – where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don’t have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.
Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.