I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates.

The advancement of mathematics is through generalization.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.Discharge your duties faithfully and well.Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts...At the end of the day if you live long enough most people get what they deserve.

"I write to destroy the game, but I always end up creating it."

Policy debates should be grounded in rigorous empirical analysis.

I'm a hopeless romantic.