Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell

We probably lose the battles, but we win the wars!

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?" "I would trust Hagrid with my life," said Dumbledore.

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.