Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. “We watch television,” Dave said. - Jack McDevitt

He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.

Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.

Freedom and idiots make a volatile mix. And the sad truth is that the idiocy quotient in the general population is alarmingly high.