So—I'm a major. New pay grade." She laughed. "My salary has just jumped from nothing to next-to-nothing. What will I spend it all on? - Charles E. Gannon

No: the answer you like the most is the one you should trust the least. Go over the evidence one more time: be sure you haven’t missed something.

And here are the wages you must pay in order to climb the political ladder, you foolish sod. You’ve got to do the dirty work that others have ordered. I’ve done it out of dubious patriotism. Let’s see if you’ll do it out of blind ambition.

How would you answer their demand for justice and vengeance?
"I would begin by insisting that justice and vengeance are different. Vengeance is often blind to reason: all it can see is the object it hates. Conversely, justice is blind to our preferences and prejudices; all it may see are the deeds and the conditions under which they were carried out.