A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.