56 Quotes by Stephen L. Carter

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

Being on the inside could be an addiction

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

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

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

Never act surprised in a courtroom.

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

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.