"Professional liberals are too arrogant to compromise. In my experience, they were also very unpleasant people on a personal level. Behind their slogans about saving the world and sharing the wealth with the common man lurked a nasty hunger for power. They would double-cross their own mothers to get it or keep it."
--Harry S. Truman, pp. 55, American Heritage 7/8 1992, from a 1970 interview