Stephen L. Carter Quotes
Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.
People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...
Show MoreHe had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.
The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.
This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future histori...
Show MoreBeing on the inside could be an addiction
Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.
It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.
They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.
In a crisis, time was always the enemy.
Better to wait actively than passively.
To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.
She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteou...
Show MoreShe had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the p...
Show MoreOur sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.
He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.
