War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. – Bob Schieffer