But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.
Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn’t take the drug money
You don’t have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn’t take the drug money…
Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service….
Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don’t go along to get along; do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else.