“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”– Thomas Jefferson Related Quotes “To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three. Some shadows got shorter and some longer, as they say in Karhide.”— Ursula K. Le Guin “When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people’s trust.”— Joan Bauer “It isn’t fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she’s taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.”– Dee Dee Myers