“Violence is Inevitable.”

“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”

“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.”

“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”

“Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”

“What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!”

“The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the rest.”