There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.

If consequences are removed from enough actions, then the very concept of human agency evaporates, life itself becomes meaningless, and is thenceforth a vacuum…

Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.

His greatest fear, or nightmare, is not to be thought hip or cool, and if to avoid that terrible fate it means that he has to glamorize evil--well, so be it.