If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

You just can't move around in here. It's a mess.

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.