Thoughts & Quotes (4th October 2016)

Politics

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

-Harry S Truman

Administration

Even as someone who's labelled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

-Clarence Thomas

Diplomacy

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.

-Noah Feldman