The Basic Quality For The Diplomat Is

If There Is A Way To Delay An Important Decision, The Good Bureaucracy, Public Or Private, Will Find It.

The Vacuum Created By A Failure To Communicate Will Quickly Be Filled With Rumor, Misrepresentations, Drivel, And Poison.

A Committee Grows Organically, Flourishes And Blossoms, Sunlit On Top And Shady Beneath, Until It Dies, Scattering The Seeds From Which Other Committees Will Spring.

It Is Now Well Known, However, That Men Enter Local Politics Solely As A Result Of Being Unhappily Married.

Expenditure Rises To Meet Income.