In many respects this is a story about carelessness and about how even the best of intentions can go perilously awry.

"I cannot tell you the selfish pleasure I get out of working with President Clinton," Mr. Bush said.

A survey of 1,500 British retirees found that 45 percent said they stayed at one job too long.
"To avoid similar grief, write out your current regrets and what you wish you had done instead."

"People said, ‘This goose has no owner.’ "

"Now we all just have to figure out what to do next."

American officials hope that Afghanistan’s drug problem will someday be only as bad as that of Colombia.

"There’s no sugar-coating this ... at the end of the day, it’s a high risk venture."

"What I would like is for people to look back in 10 years and say, ‘Yeah, these guys got it right.’ "

"One of the most rewarding things is when people say, ‘I really don’t like the outcome, but the process was fair.’ "

"It sounded nutty at first," Mr. Monroe recalled, "but the more and more you get into it, the more sense it makes."

... the ideas espoused by Mr. Falwell and Mr. Wolfowitz, though both were valued on the right, did not mesh; they were unconnected, spokes in the large conservative wheel ...

"Red flags should have been waving."

We have different words for art and idea because they are two different things.

Economists use the term "survivorship bias" to describe the recollection of past moments by what has survived into the present, filtering out whatever elements did not bear fruit.

"We’ve reached a tipping point. It’s ... [ Read More (1.9k in body) ]