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Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.
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The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .
William Lewis Safir
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It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
William Lewis Safir -
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
William Lewis Safir -
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
William Lewis Safir -
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.
William Lewis Safir -
George Washington had a tough second term.
William Lewis Safir -
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.
William Lewis Safir
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A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
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To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
William Lewis Safir -
We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.
William Lewis Safir -
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.
William Lewis Safir -
Don't expect others to do your work for you.
William Lewis Safir -
You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.
William Lewis Safir
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I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie.
William Lewis Safir -
A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
William Lewis Safir -
Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.
William Lewis Safir -
What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.
William Lewis Safir -
I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.
William Lewis Safir -
Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
William Lewis Safir