- As illustrated every damn day in this wannabe administration.
- Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
- You have to choose people who can't displace you. At this point, the employment-determining quality is not lack of intelligence but lack of principle and humanity.