A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

He operated on the echo principle: He told the president what he wanted to hear.

None of us really understand what's going on with all these numbers

[In the 1980s President Ronald Reagan's budget director gave conservatives sensible marching orders.] We are interested in curtailing weak claims rather than weak clients, ... We have to show that we are willing to attack powerful clients with weak claims.

Mitt Romney was not a businessman; he was a master financial speculator who bought, sold, flipped, and stripped businesses. Instead, he spent his 15 years raising debt in prodigious amounts on Wall Street so that Bain could purchase the pots and pans and castoffs of corporate America, leverage them to the hilt, gussy them up as reborn "roll-ups", and then deliver them back to Wall Street for resale--the faster the better.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition to stand up for it.