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“George Bernard Shaw made the point best: ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him … The unreasonable man adapts the surrounding conditions to himself … All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
― How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
“In sum, the Bible teaches that God’s law does not stand in the way of our happiness—it seeks to make it possible.”
― Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
― Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
“Crises will come and go in all countries, more often in some than in others; at these moments, someone has to lead, has to make sure that while the crisis is addressed, it doesn’t overwhelm the pre-existing agenda for change. Allow that, and failure beckons. Hence Harold Macmillan’s famous lament about why he had not achieved more: ‘Events, dear boy! Events.”
― How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
― How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
“God wants us to be forgiven more than we ourselves want to be forgiven.”
― Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
― Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
“it was one of those cases I found so common later in government, where the risk of acting was far less than the risk of doing nothing”
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“UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL DRIVERS OF CHANGE (and base your plan on them) PREPARE A PLAN TO IMPLEMENT YOUR STRATEGY THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH TO GET STARTED (and don’t make concessions for a quiet life) STRENGTHEN THE DELIVERY CHAIN (don’t think you can get away without doing so”
― How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
― How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
“A common caricature of Catholic teaching is that it rejects the notion of salvation by grace and affirms instead that salvation is simply by works. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
― Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
― Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
“To misunderstand salvation is to fail to understand fully who the Savior is.”
― Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
― Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know
