“[President Bush] did not consciously set out to engage in these destructive practices.  But like others before him, he chose to play the Washington game the way he found it, rather than changing the culture as he vowed to do...”

- Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary from his book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House”

 

“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”

- Thomas Carlyle, 19th century Scottish Historian and Author