“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

“… only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

“Business never rests.”

“Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity”

“In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.”

“Rest is not quitting
The busy career,
Rest is the fitting
Of self to one's sphere.”

“If you think it cannot be done, please do not interfere or interrupt the rest of us trying to do it.”

“We don't need to have meetings. We know where we are … there's some guys in there that have been in this situation before. And the best way I think all of us know to go about our business is to play the next game. Put that on our radar and try and take care of the next game. You start trying to look ahead, it can look a little overwhelming. Just play the game that's in front of us, and that's the only thing that matters right now.”

“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.”

“What we were doing was sort of trying to use our relationships that we had built up, first through Young Republicans and then through NCPAC, and to create a business that would focus on political consulting.”