Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible. - Kurt Vonnegut

It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.

Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.