Who said “Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”?

“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”

“What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.”

“There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.”

“I am a deeply superficial person.”

“The people are to be taken in small doses.”

“Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”

“He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”

“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”

“The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.”

“We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.”

“You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.”