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• If you are concerned about being criticized, you're in the wrong job.
  However you vote, and whatever you do, somebody will be out there telling you that you are...
• The speed at which the legislative process seems to work is in inverse proportion to your enthusiasm for the bill.
  If you want a bill to move quickly, committee hearings, the rules committee, and legislative procedures appear to be roadblocks to democracy....
• Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?
  The press is hopelessly biased or genuinely fair, depending upon whose views are being misquoted, misrepresented, or misunderstood....
• When voting on appropriations bills, more is not necessarily better.
  It is as wasteful to have a B-1 bomber in every garage as it is to have a welfare program for every conceivable form of deprivation....
• Beware the [lobbyist], my son, the jaws that bite, the claws that snatch" (with thanks to Lewis Carroll).
  No matter how noble the cause or well meaning its professional advocates, lobbyists are still paid to get results....
• Sometimes the best law of all is no law at all. Not all the world's ills are susceptible to legislative correction.
  -- Pierre S. du Po...
• We should realize that a city is better off with bad law
  o long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule, states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals....
• Never open your own restaurant. -- Pierre Franey
• Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it--even if I have said it--unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
  -- The Buddha...