Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing. - C. J. Cherryh

A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.

Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as common in politics as astute maneuvering;

It is of course, always an age of wonders. The true gift is remembering to look out the windows, and to let the thoughts run backward and forward and wide to the breadth and height of all that’s ever been and might yet be — Once upon a time, I tell you.