Jonathan Rauch Quotes
For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.
Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.
After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.
Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.
In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.
We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.
We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.
Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.
There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.
Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.