It Has Proved Politically Wiser To Set

The Single Most Exciting Thing You Encounter In Government Is Competence, Because It's So Rare.

The World's Largest Debtor Is A Distinction Of Sorts, But Not The One We Like Having.

When A Person Goes To A Country And Finds Their Newspapers Filled With Nothing But Good News, He Can Bet There Are Good Men In Jail.

Political Society Wants Things Simple. Political Scientists Know Them To Be Complex... One Could Argue That, In Part, The Leftist Impulse Is So Conspicuous Among The Educated And Well-to-do Precisely Because They Are Exposed To More Information, And Are Accordingly Forced To Choose Between Living With The Strains Of Complexity, Or Lapsing Into Simplism.

What The Press Never Does Say Is Who The Leaker Is And Why He Wants The Story Leaked. Yet, More Often Than Not, This Is The More Important Story: What Policy Wins If The One Being Disclosed Loses?