“War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there areusually nice hors d’oeuvres.”
“Wars come and go; politics endure.”
“Where it is not better, it will be worse,but from bad to good is not far again.”
“Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.”
“Humankind, or at least American-kind, will lose its edge as we produce more and more pipsqueaks and everyone gets nicer. Whole generations of pipsqueaks will be so fucking nice you won't be able to tell a man from a woman...And it will get worse and worse as people mistake nice for good. HItler was nice, supposedly, most of the time. A lot of good that did...”
“At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.”