“McClellan said he isn’t accusing administration officials of ‘deliberate or conscious’ lies to the American people, but instead of becoming so wrapped up in trying to shape the story to their advantage that they ignored facts that didn’t fit the views they were promoting.” (>>)

“Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give it to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in the casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.” (>>)

“If we know that we’re in a recession and our government gives us the equivalent of monopoly money to play with to kill the pain, we’re idiots, we’re complete idiots if we take the money and we spend it on toys.” (>>)