A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. – Lakhdar Brahimi
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. – Paul Harris