You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots. - George Alec Effinger

Government by emotion is identified with rule by tyranny.

I told you it was dirty. When you wander into the highest level of international affairs, it’s almost always dirty.

The butler recognized me, even favoring me with a minute change in his expression. Evidently I had become a celebrity. Politicians and sex stars may cuddle up to you and it doesn’t prove a thing, but when the butlers of the world notice you, you realize that some of what you believe about yourself is true.