It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.

Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.

The status quo sucks.

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change.