Thoughts & Quotes (16th October 2016)

Politics

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

-Hunter S. Thompson

Administration

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

-Adam Smith

Diplomacy

I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

-John Poindexter