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The poor slaves had built up a place with boughs and leaves, where they might meet for prayers, but the white people pulled it down twice, and would not allow them even a shed for prayers.

The limits we assign to Nature sometimes define our own lack of imagination.

Engineers are dangerous because they’re obsessed by facts and you can’t divert them or buy them off.

Data are not the same as information. Before you can get the answers you want, you have to ask the right question.

Right decision or wrong decision, it was a leader’s job to make it.

The same thing happens to every President. People tell a chief executive what they think he wants to hear. Rosy economic reports, high popularity figures, promising international changes, you name it. There’s a competition to be the first with good news. Anyone who tells bad news tends to get weeded out—even if all the real news is bad.

It is one of the unfortunate aspects of the legal profession that excess carries no penalty. There is never, for a lawyer, such a thing as too much.

If you tried really hard, you could take that as a compliment.

Forrest Singer, it always seemed to Saul, spoke as though the two of them were equals. Saul possibly held the slightly inferior position in the doctor’s eyes. Saul was the President of the United States, true; but Forrest Singer was an M.D.

Decisions based on incomplete information are one thing, a fact of political life. Decisions made with no information are another.

The important question wasn’t whether or not you thought you were the right one to lead. It was whether others believed you were.

Other people’s jobs always seemed easier than yours until you actually had to do them.