The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.
The perfect bureaucrat … is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
[Referring to George W. Bush:] He lacks the courage of his convictions because he lacks convictions.
Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
