“ The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power… Garry Wills
“ Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are to… Garry Wills
“ Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm. Garry Wills
“ Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders. Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality pri… Garry Wills
“ Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves. Garry Wills
“ The tapes are the real man—mean, vindictive, panicky, striking first in anticipation of being struck, trying to lift his own friable self-esteem by shoving others down. Murray Kempton said he wanted t… Garry Wills
“ God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger. Garry Wills
“ Talmud, the Halakha, the Qur’an, the Bible, the (Sikh) Granth Sahib—as true and accurate in all particulars.4 How could a dying religious attitude, scheduled for elimination by the end of the twentiet… Garry Wills
“ You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich m… Garry Wills
“ Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments. Garry Wills
