Don't treat good guys like you treat bad guys.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Political technology determines political success.

Actions have consequences.

Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.

Loss of worldly riches is better than loss of heavenly treasures.

Guantánamo Bay's motto: 'Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.' Four adjectives describing one sick joke.

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith even so is he.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.