"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly."
- Dr. Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, Sept. 1783
Transit Chief Has the Style of His Boss by Joyce Purnick
"Maybe there is an unofficial school of applied politics secreted somewhere on the outskirts of Albany, a place where people who serve Gov. George E. Pataki have to take a required seminar in offensive politics...." [more]