Geraldine Brooks Quote

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions them...

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause.

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, Irulan agreed.There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, Paul said.

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.