24 quotes found
“In a crisis, time was always the enemy.”
“Better to wait actively than passively.”
“Being on the inside could be an addiction”
“It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.”
“Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.”
“She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.”
“Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.”
“He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.”
“They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.”
“In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.”
“So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.”
“He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.”
“The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.”
“On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something betwe...”
“He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.”
“He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.”
“To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.”
“Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.”
“Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.”
“People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.”
