Quotes by : Stephen L. Carter

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.....

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.