The Kennedy Imprisonment Quotes

“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. —GILBERT CHESTERTON”
― Garry Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power

“For Max Weber, charismatic power must always yield in time, either gracefully or by violence, to the everyday order of kingship (traditional rule) or contractual 'modern' government (legal rule). And if the course taken is toward *legal* rule, then it will tend, of necessity, toward bureaucracy, toward patterns of accountability, predictability, oversight, and record-keeping. By contrast with a swift and arbitrary charismatic rule, this kind of government will seem to many 'inefficient.' In the same way, due process in criminal law is slower than arbitrary justice. But, outside crisis circumstances, the arbitrary soon becomes indefensible.”
― Garry Wills, The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power by Wills, Garry(November 14, 2002) Paperback