Quotes by Hugh Sidey

“A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in ones heart and some laughter on ones lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”

“In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.”

“We love the blather and boast, the charge and countercharge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.”

“When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices.. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.”

“A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.”

“The legions of reporters who cover politics dont want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.”

“The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.”

“Chinas Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evenings lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.”

“The prime minister found something hopeful in the mans eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.”

“The Corn Belt is like John Bunyans idyllic Beulah-or a dark Gehenna.”

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in ones heart and some laughter on ones lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the mans eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.