Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.