If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.