[in Politics,] When There Is No Reason

Democracy Takes Work. That's The Thing We're Really Finding Out, That, You Know, In Many Ways, You Know, The Past Two Decades We've Taken For Granted All Of The Extraordinary Achievements Of The Post-war Generation. You Know, Building This Global Alliance Structure That Has Kept The Peace Across The North Atlantic Since World War Ii. Building All Of These Institutions, Building All This Remarkable Technology. And People Have Privatized. You Know, You Can Now, You Don't Have To Go Outdoors Much, The Whole World Comes To You.

Canada Has A Real Civil Service, Which The United States Doesn't Have, An Independent Civil Service. Canada Also Has A Stronger Federal System.

Speech Writers Are More Vulnerable To Vanity Than Any Other Group Of People In Washington.

Americans Are About To Discover That Their System Is More Vulnerable Than They Thought. There's A Lot Of Complacency In American Politics, There's A Lot Of Complacency In Advanced Democracies Generally.

Life, As The Signs In The Liquor Stores Say, Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine. And Summer Is Too Short To Read Bad Books.