The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
“We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.”
“Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.”