The days are stacked against what we think we are. - Jim Harrison

Clive never wore neckties under the conviction that all of the political mischief in the nation was created by men who wore neckties.

One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.