In the blink of an eye, the same people who monetized and celebrated hysteria now pretend to be in favor of sober restraint.
-- Jonah Goldberg
Many of our intellectuals are simply in the business of “organizing political hatreds".
-- Julien Benda
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
-- Ernest Benn
So politicians and I observe an unspoken pact: I keep my expectations low, and they regularly meet them.
-- Matt Labash
...any thread? Prior Randoms...? (from Others).
