William Safire Quotes

Never assume the obvious is true.

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,
non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor,
judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's
order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.