Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.