Science like art religion commerce warfare and even sleep is based on presuppositions.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

As you enter positions of trust and power dream a little before you think.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people not chairs and positions.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.